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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…

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…

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….

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)…

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…

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…

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…