Full-Throttle Franchise
The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast & Furious
- 280 pages
- English
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Full-Throttle Franchise
The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast & Furious
About this book
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 film became one of the surprise hits of that summer, earning more than 5 times its budget in worldwide ticket sales. 2 decades and 9 films later, Fast & Furious today ranks among the 10 highest-grossing movie franchises of all time, with a box office total of $6.6 billion and has also given rise to an animated TV show and theme park ride. 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Researching Fast & Furious in the franchise era of Hollywood
- 2 From Mission Impossible to Mission Insanity: A longitudinal analysis of action sequences in the Fast & Furious franchise
- 3 āFor those ten seconds, Iām freeā: Temporality, affect and spectacle in the Fast & Furious franchise
- 4 A critical quantitative analysis of race and representation in the Fast Saga films
- 5 Vin Diesel as franchise auteur: Intersectional authorship and the cuddly hardbody in Los Bandoleros
- 6 Fast, Furious and Free of Sex: Dom, Brian and hetero male affection
- 7 āWhatās real is familyā: Maternal bodies, paternal labour and parenting roles in Fast & Furious
- 8 āI never want to lose a fightā: Masculinity, machismo and high-octane action in the Fast & Furious franchise
- 9 The on-and off-screen bromances of Fast & Furious
- 10 āItās so so so so so so importantā: Chinaās role in shaping the Fast & Furious franchise
- 11 Fun for all the family: Adapting Fast & Furious as animated childrenās television
- 12 āZero tolerance for candy assesā: World Wrestling Entertainment and Fast & Furious as transmedia storytelling
- Filmography
- Index
- Imprint