Archive for November, 2022
2 Make Kin, 2 Make Memories: Care Ethics in The Fast Saga
At this point, The Fast Saga’s emphasis on family has become a running joke. In the explosively popular new TV series Abbott Elementary, when eager-beaver teacher Janine (Quinta Brunson) insists…
The Fast and Furious Formula: The Role of Family in Meaningful Work
For over twenty years now, The Fast Saga has provided audiences with much more than action-packed car chases and campy dialogue. Beyond the unrealistic stunts and often ridiculous plot twists, the films…
“For those ten seconds or less . . . I’m free”: Working Class Male Fantasies and Spatial Politics
At a time when working- and middle-class individuals and families are faced with decreasing social and economic mobility, the popular Fast and Furious franchise (The Fast Saga) offers audiences an…
Macrobrews and Melodrama in the Fast and Furious Franchise
A personal anecdote to start: long before I became a bureaucrat, I taught Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955). At first, the students sneered and laughed at the film….
Wheel Men: The Blue-Collar Masculinities of The Fast Saga
Early in Fast & Furious 6 (2013), as Dom (Vin Diesel) and his team are regrouping after their first chastening encounter with Luke Evans’s supervillain Owen Shaw, Roman (Tyrese Gibson)…
Refusing Narrative Time as Grief Practice
After Paul Walker died in a car accident, Brian O’Conner got to live. Universal shut down production of Furious 7 with the film half-shot, before conferring with his family, deciding…
“The streets we know best”: The Fast and The Furious’s imagined Los Angeles
Editor’s Note: The below piece has been constructed in StoryMaps — users can scroll through to see the piece in its entirety. Nichole Nomura is a PhD candidate in the…
Introduction to The Fast Saga
Long considered ludicrous, the Fast and Furious franchise (or The Fast Saga) does not concern itself with the laws of nature, the state, or narrative itself. Watching these films requires…