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)…
Contemporaries Essays
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…