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Call No: 81 TRE TRE
Author: Trenchard-Smith, Brian
Edition: 2020
Place: [USA]
PhysDes: 580 pages : illustrated ; 26 cm
Subject: TRENCHARD-SMITH, BRIAN; PAGE, GRANT; LEE, BRUCE; MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975); DEATHCHEATERS (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1976); STUNT ROCK (NE, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978); BMX BANDITS (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1983); FROG DREAMING (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1985); DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986); TURKEY SHOOT (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1981)
Summary: Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," "Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings", "Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his "favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era. -- book blurb
ISBN: 9798985674705

Author: Roddick, Nick
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
Summary: Article on a stunt done by Guy Norris for 'Dead end Drive-In

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)

PhysDes: Article
Subject: DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
Summary: Location report

Author: Jones, Alan
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
Summary: Film preview and interview with director Brian Trenchard-Smith

Call No: P DEA
PubDate: [1986]
PhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 90 X 64 cm.
Subject: DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
Summary: Image: Illustrated picture of a man (holding a gun) and woman holding hands with the drive-in and flames behind them and a car above them.Text: 'Getting in was easy... Getting out is hell on wheels.'
Notes: General wear and tear and blu-tack stains on back corners. Slight tear on top.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
Summary: Report on production techniques used in 'Dead End Drive-In'

Call No: 79 MAD NEW
Author: Newton, James
Edition: 2021
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PhysDes: 216 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Subject: [TWENTY-NINETEEN] 2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK [2019: DOPO LA CADUTA DI NEW YORK] (IT/FR, Sergio Martino, 1983); ANDERSON, WES; AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986); DEATH RACE 2000 (US, Paul Bartel, 1975); DEATH RUN (UK, Michael J. Murphy, 1987); DEATH WISH (US, Michael Winner, 1974); EXPLOITATION FILMS; EXTERMINATOR, THE (US, James Glickenhaus, 1980); HOME VIDEO; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); MILLER, GEORGE; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV
Summary: The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s. The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781501342295
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Origins of the Road Warrior -- Chapter Two: The Death Race Lineage -- Chapter Three: Contextualising Mad Max -- Chapter Four: The Politics of Mad Max -- Chapter Five: MadMaxploitation! Transnational Road Warriors -- Chapter Six: Fury Road and the Imitation of Exploitation -- Chapter Seven: Mad Max and the metatext: Fan Engagement and Online Culture -- Conclusion: A Few Years From Now -- List of Films -- Reference List -- Index

Author: Johinke, Rebecca
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
Summary: This article suggests that Dead End Drive-In (1986), Brian Trenchard-Smith's little-known Ozploitation film, deserves reconsideration from Australasian film scholars because it offers a valuable contribution to discussions about Australian masculinity, car culture, phobic narratives and the White Australia Policy. It is argued that the drive-in as detention centre foreshadows later Australian anxieties about immigration and border protection. Clearly a phobic narrative full of white panic (Morris, 1989, 1998), it exhibits many of the anxieties about Australians and auto-immobility that Catherine Simpson (2006) discusses, and fits neatly into Tranter's (2003) discussion of cars and governance and Bode's (2006a) arguments about whiteness and Australian masculinity in crisis. -- Abstract

Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
Summary: Location report on 'Dead End Drive-In'