Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast & Furious
Editat de Joshua Gulam, Fraser Elliott, Sarah Feinsteinen Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 feb 2023
Full-Throttle Franchise is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of the Fast & Furious, bringing together a range of scholars to explore not only the style and themes of the franchise, but also its broader cultural impact and legacy. The collected essays establish the franchise's importance in cinematic and ideological terms, linking their discussions to wider issues of genre, representation, adaptation, and industry. Topics range from stardom and performance, focusing on key actors Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, to the way in which Fast & Furious intersects with dominant ideas of racial, gender, and sexual identity.
Aimed at both scholars and fans, Full-Throttle Franchise seeks to uncover just what has made Fast & Furious so enduringly popular, mapping its outrageous set pieces, ever-expanding universe, and growing cast of global megastars in terms of wider cultural and industrial forces.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501378904
ISBN-10: 1501378902
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 11 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 158 x 232 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501378902
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 11 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 158 x 232 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Researching Fast & Furious in the franchise era of Hollywood
Joshua Gulam (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Sarah Feinstein (University of Leeds, UK), and Fraser Elliott (University of Edinburgh, UK)
2. From Mission Impossible to Mission Insanity: A longitudinal analysis of action sequences in the Fast & Furious franchise
Lennart Soberon (Ghent University, Belgium)
3. 'For those ten seconds, I'm free': Temporality, affect and spectacle in the Fast & Furious franchise
Naja Later (Swinburne University, Australia)
4. A critical quantitative analysis of race and representation in the Fast Saga films
Pete Jones (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Joshua Gulam (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
5. Vin Diesel as franchise auteur: Intersectional authorship and the cuddly hardbody in Los Bandeleros
CarrieLynn D. Reinhard (Dominican University, USA) and Christopher J. Olson (University of Wisconsin, USA)
6. Fast, Furious, and Free of Sex: Dom, Brian, and hetero male affection
Aaron Hunter (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
7. 'What's real is family': Maternal bodies, paternal labour and parenting roles in Fast & Furious
Bianca Batti (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
8. 'I never want to lose a fight': Masculinity, machismo and high-octane action in the Fast & Furious franchise
Rebecca Feasey (Bath Spa University, UK)
9. The on- and off-screen bromances of Fast & Furious
Jackie Raphael (Curtin University, Australia) and Celia Lam (University of Nottingham in China)
10. 'It's so so so so so so important': China's role in shaping the Fast & Furious franchise
Fraser Elliott (University of Edinburgh, UK)
11. Fun for all the family: Adapting the Fast & Furious as animated children's television
Sam Summers (Middlesex University, UK)
12. 'Zero tolerance for candy asses': World Wrestling Entertainment and Fast & Furious as transmedia storytelling
Robert Watts (University of Manchester, UK)
Filmography
Index
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Researching Fast & Furious in the franchise era of Hollywood
Joshua Gulam (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Sarah Feinstein (University of Leeds, UK), and Fraser Elliott (University of Edinburgh, UK)
2. From Mission Impossible to Mission Insanity: A longitudinal analysis of action sequences in the Fast & Furious franchise
Lennart Soberon (Ghent University, Belgium)
3. 'For those ten seconds, I'm free': Temporality, affect and spectacle in the Fast & Furious franchise
Naja Later (Swinburne University, Australia)
4. A critical quantitative analysis of race and representation in the Fast Saga films
Pete Jones (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Joshua Gulam (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
5. Vin Diesel as franchise auteur: Intersectional authorship and the cuddly hardbody in Los Bandeleros
CarrieLynn D. Reinhard (Dominican University, USA) and Christopher J. Olson (University of Wisconsin, USA)
6. Fast, Furious, and Free of Sex: Dom, Brian, and hetero male affection
Aaron Hunter (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
7. 'What's real is family': Maternal bodies, paternal labour and parenting roles in Fast & Furious
Bianca Batti (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
8. 'I never want to lose a fight': Masculinity, machismo and high-octane action in the Fast & Furious franchise
Rebecca Feasey (Bath Spa University, UK)
9. The on- and off-screen bromances of Fast & Furious
Jackie Raphael (Curtin University, Australia) and Celia Lam (University of Nottingham in China)
10. 'It's so so so so so so important': China's role in shaping the Fast & Furious franchise
Fraser Elliott (University of Edinburgh, UK)
11. Fun for all the family: Adapting the Fast & Furious as animated children's television
Sam Summers (Middlesex University, UK)
12. 'Zero tolerance for candy asses': World Wrestling Entertainment and Fast & Furious as transmedia storytelling
Robert Watts (University of Manchester, UK)
Filmography
Index
Recenzii
The Fast & Furious saga is a gift that keeps on giving. The social media presence of some of its stars (notably Vin Diesel on Facebook and Dwayne Johnson on Instagram) is almost unprecedented for actors, the farewell song ('See you again') for another of its stars (the late Paul Walker) is among the top five most viewed videos on YouTube. And, yes, there are the films, a somewhat impromptu and ever shape-shifting series of action spectacles that has grown from innocuous beginnings into a world-conquering franchise that is, however, curiously marginal at the US box office.
Full-Throttle Franchise is exactly the kind of full-scale study that this unique franchise has long needed: highly critical where appropriate but also quite celebratory where it is deserved, with an eye for filmic and other details but also with a view of the big picture, to do with the film industry and popular culture in the 21st century. The book offers a broad range of perspectives on the franchise, bringing together quantitative and qualitative, textual and contextual analysis, dealing with authorship, genre and stardom; race, gender, familialism and bromance; sequelisation, adaptation, transmedia storytelling and globalisation. Rather surprising twists in the story of the franchise are highlighted in chapters on the growing importance of the Chinese market, on children's animation and on pro-wrestling. While always properly academic, individual chapters are often fun to read as well, and they should indeed inspire much future work on this fascinating global phenomenon.
Full-Throttle Franchise interrogates an exciting and timely range of questions raised by the Fast & Furious franchise, which as editors Joshua Gulam, Fraser Elliott and Sarah Feinstein note, has reflected many cultural and film industry shifts of the last decades and stands distinctly apart from them as well. Read and learn!
This expansive collection, meticulously conceived and rigorously edited, examines a franchise that is both an exemplar of current trends in the franchise era and a unique transmedia property that has triumphed against the odds. Beginning with a comprehensive and enlightening introduction, the various chapters go on to cover a range of perspectives that are all central to the success and longevity of the saga, including the action genre and sequences, racial politics and ideology, stardom and authorship, masculinity, and extratextual properties. The scope and precision of the collection is breathtaking, positioning itself as the essential study into the Fast Saga and a robust addition to the 'family' of contemporary Hollywood scholarship.
Full-Throttle Franchise is exactly the kind of full-scale study that this unique franchise has long needed: highly critical where appropriate but also quite celebratory where it is deserved, with an eye for filmic and other details but also with a view of the big picture, to do with the film industry and popular culture in the 21st century. The book offers a broad range of perspectives on the franchise, bringing together quantitative and qualitative, textual and contextual analysis, dealing with authorship, genre and stardom; race, gender, familialism and bromance; sequelisation, adaptation, transmedia storytelling and globalisation. Rather surprising twists in the story of the franchise are highlighted in chapters on the growing importance of the Chinese market, on children's animation and on pro-wrestling. While always properly academic, individual chapters are often fun to read as well, and they should indeed inspire much future work on this fascinating global phenomenon.
Full-Throttle Franchise interrogates an exciting and timely range of questions raised by the Fast & Furious franchise, which as editors Joshua Gulam, Fraser Elliott and Sarah Feinstein note, has reflected many cultural and film industry shifts of the last decades and stands distinctly apart from them as well. Read and learn!
This expansive collection, meticulously conceived and rigorously edited, examines a franchise that is both an exemplar of current trends in the franchise era and a unique transmedia property that has triumphed against the odds. Beginning with a comprehensive and enlightening introduction, the various chapters go on to cover a range of perspectives that are all central to the success and longevity of the saga, including the action genre and sequences, racial politics and ideology, stardom and authorship, masculinity, and extratextual properties. The scope and precision of the collection is breathtaking, positioning itself as the essential study into the Fast Saga and a robust addition to the 'family' of contemporary Hollywood scholarship.