Ageing with Film. "The Mad Max Movies" by Adrian Martin, "Walkabout" by Louis Nowra and "The Devil's Playground" by Christos Tsiolkas [review]

Abstract

The Currency Press's series ‘Australian Screen Classics’ is off to a good start. With playwright Louis Nowra’s "Walkabout", thorough in its production, analysis and reception mode, novelist Christos Tsiolkas’s "TheDevil’s Playground", a study in personal enchantment, and Age film reviewer Adrian Martin’s "The Mad Max Movies", an action fan’s impassioned response to the trilogy, the series makes clear that it will not be settling for a predictable template.