Dario is joined on-stage at the Electric Palace by two final year Digital Film students studying at the University of Brighton - Kathryn Bessant and James Calver - to discuss George Miller's 1979 Ozploitation action fest Mad Max. Mel Gibson takes the title role as Max Rockatanski, the fearless cop waging war with kill-crazy bikers who target his family. It is a road-scorching, neo-punk, take-no-prisoners combat set in the lawless Australian outback.
Neil and Dario expand on themes from the film and engage in a wider discussion covering topics including the future of the arts in higher education, neoliberal ideology, dystopian cinema, Sean Parker's Screening Room proposal and Louis CK's Horace and Pete.
Show Notes:
Times Higher article on graduate earnings
Requiem for the American Dream - Documentary on Noam Chomsky
Sean Parker's The Screening Room - Daily Beast article
Horace and Pete - Louis CK
WTF with Marc Maron - Interview with Louis CK
The Teacher's Soul and the Terrors of Performativity by Stephen J. Ball
London Review of Books article about H.G. Adler's The Wall
Eyes Without a Face (with academic Matt Smith)
Robocop
Essay Film Now
2016 review
Gremlins (plus an interview with Lola Landekic)
The War Room (with filmmaker George Amponsah)
Lost in Translation (with Melody Bridges and Violet Lucca)
Knowing Sounds: Podcasting as Academic Practice
Before Sunrise (with film reviewer Ren Zelen)
Memento
Broken Embraces
Summer Special
Old Joy/I am Belfast (plus an interview with Mark Cousins)
The Last Detail (with film critic Christina Newland)
Ex_Machina
20000 Days on Earth (with director Kieran Evans)
Blue Steel (with director Kim Longinotto)
Le Quai des Brumes
The Hunger (with directors the Blaine brothers)
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