The Development of the

Apocalyptic Genre in Post-Modern

Cinema
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) George Miller
Mad Max (1979) George Miller
The Book of Eli (2010) Allen and Albert Hughes

Genevieve Sander

List of Post-Apocalyptic
Films
There are over 302 Post-Apocalyptic
films which have been released over
the years
The three films I needed had to
complement each other and link in
with each other, and give a strong
sense of a post-apocalyptic world
I wanted a range from older films to
newer films to see how the genre the
expanded over the years

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) George

Miller
Director: George Miller
Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy
Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas
Hoult
Top Rated Movies #166. Nominated for 10
Oscars. Another 126 wins & 129 nominations.
Trailer: https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJnMQG9ev8
Bullet Farmer Scene: Max and Furiosa working
together: https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeAVncI7mQ

Mad Max (1979) George

Miller
Director: George Miller
Writers: James McCausland, George Miller
Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh
Keays-Byrne
Trailer: https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=caHnaRq8Qlg
Scene: Death of the Nightrider https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOi1l_Dkl-A

The Book of Eli (2010) Allen & Albert

Hughes
Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Writer: Gary Whitta
Stars: Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Ray
Stevenson
Trailer: https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSMHmtaoXtI
Scene: Hijackers https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOqXpb1o5xU

The Book of Eli Study Guide by

Craig Detweiler
http://
www.pepperdine.edu/entertainment-media-C
ulture/content/bookofeli_studyguide.pdf
"As Eli, Denzel Washington embodies a
different kind of hero, driven by divine
calling. Directors Albert and Allen Hughes
have created a distinctive look for The
Book of Eli. The stirring script by Gary
Whitta combines elements from classic

The Making of Mad Max: Fury Road

https://vimeo.com/127381179
Fury Road Q&A with John Seale ACS
ASC and David Burr ACS
Focuses on cinematography, editing,
and the equipment they needed to
make the film

Mad Max: Fury Road Behind the

Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=xESF
yIxito0
Were talking about a war drive; were talking
about tremendous human suffering. Were
talking about a really interesting sense of
humour that is throughout the whole film and
were talking women who take control of the
situation. All these characters are so
wonderful and its so colourful and its so
brutal, its such a society where everything is
completely out of control.

VICE Talks Film: George Miller on

Mad Max: Fury Road
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_VxcSHyWI
The biggest problem by far is safety,
everyday around 130 days, nearly 7
months of big, big stunt days and youve
got to be really on it to pull it off. We had
a fantastic stunt crew, rigging crew and
special effects crew and if one thing goes
wrong, just one thing goes wrong in it,
people could be really badly hurt.

Crisis Cinema by Mick

Broderick
"As an undercurrent of Western
imagination, apocalypticism is
always with us. Consider its part in
such sudden surges of intellectual
and artistic life in our century as
modernism, and in particular,
expressionism; communism and
fascism, the most powerful
apocalyptic political currents of our

Keeping the Light On: Post-Apocalyptic Narrative,

Social Critique and the Cultural Politics of Emotion
http://
dspace.library.colostate.edu/webclient/DeliveryM
anager/digitool_items/csu01_storage/2012/02/07/f
ile_2/119847
Apocalyptic imagery has proliferated in the
imagination of the human race for millennia,
articulating itself most notably within the confines
of religious texts. However, in the past century,
roughly speaking, we have seen an enormous
number of cultural artifacts from popular culture
in traditional narrative forms that propound

Mad Max: Fury Road vs Mad Max

Trilogy
https://vimeo.com/144382267