TV & Film
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
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