Full-Throttle Franchise The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast and Furious.

Full-Throttle Franchise [electronic resource] : The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast and Furious.

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When the first Fast & Furious film was released in June 2001, few predicted that it would be a box office hit, let alone the launchpad for a multi-billion-dollar franchise. A mid-budget crime movie set around L.A.'s underground car-racing scene, featuring a cast of relative unknowns, the fi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gulam, Joshua
Other Authors: Elliott, Fraser, Feinstein, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2023.
Subjects:
Film criticism.
Film theory.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Researching Fast & Furious in the franchise era of Hollywood Joshua Gulam, Fraser Elliott and Sarah Feinstein
  • 2 From Mission Impossible to Mission Insanity: A longitudinal analysis of action sequences in the Fast & Furious franchise Lennart Soberon
  • 3 'For those ten seconds, I'm free': Temporality, affect and spectacle in the Fast & Furious franchise Naja Later
  • 4 A critical quantitative analysis of race and representation in the Fast Saga films Pete Jones and Joshua Gulam
  • 5 Vin Diesel as franchise auteur: Intersectional authorship and the cuddly hardbody in Los Bandoleros CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson
  • 6 Fast, Furious and Free of Sex: Dom, Brian and hetero male affection Aaron Hunter
  • 7 'What's real is family': Maternal bodies, paternal labour and parenting roles in Fast & Furious Bianca Batti
  • 8 'I never want to lose a fight': Masculinity, machismo and high-octane action in the Fast & Furious franchise Rebecca Feasey
  • 9 The on- and off-screen bromances of Fast & Furious Jackie Raphael and Celia Lam
  • 10 'It's so so so so so so important': China's role in shaping the Fast & Furious franchise Fraser Elliott
  • 11 Fun for all the family: Adapting Fast & Furious as animated children's television Sam Summers
  • 12 'Zero tolerance for candy asses': World Wrestling Entertainment and Fast & Furious as transmedia storytelling Robert Watts
  • Filmography
  • Index

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