Beyond Topeka and Thunderdome: Variations on the Comic-Romance Pattern in Recent SF Film

'''Hall, Peter C., and Richard D. Erlich. "Beyond Topeka and Thunderdome: Variations on the Comic-Romance Pattern in Recent SF Film'''." SFS #43, 14.3 (Nov. 1987): 316-25.

Discusses a number of films set in wastelands created by nuclear holocausts, stressing A BOY AND HIS DOG and MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (films notable for — very different — mechanized underworlds).