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University of Leeds, School of Performance and Cultural Industries invites to an online book launch:
The editors of Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast & Furious in conversation with PCI PGRs
Online: Wed 25 January 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT
Book a ticket: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nice-or-die-publishing-fast-furious-tickets-479129498227
Free
Full-Throttle Franchise is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of 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.
The volume’s editors – Dr Joshua Gulam, Dr Fraser Elliott and Dr Sarah Feinstein – will speak about the process of putting the collection together in conversation with the University of Leeds School of Performance and Cultural Industries’ doctoral candidates Alice Chandler and Qianyu Wang.
Dr Gulam will speak to his chapter, written with Dr Peter Jones, 'A Critical Quantitative Analysis of Race and Representation in the Fast Saga Films', which explores the franchise's ostensibly ‘inclusive’ casting practices, especially in terms of its strong emphasis on multiracial characters. This combined textual reading of the Fast Saga films with a character networks-based content analysis that recorded the distribution of dialogue between characters from various racial/ethnic groups.
Using the franchise as a case study of American commercial filmmaking in the 2010s and the structural and formal changes that have been ushered in by the contemporary global marketplace, Dr Elliott will discuss his chapter ‘It’s so so so so so so important’: China’s role in shaping the Fast & Furious franchise.
Dr Feinstein will discuss the publishing process for edited volumes - from drafting a call for papers to indexing. This event will appeal to those interested in editing a collected volume, film studies scholars and fans of Fast & Furious. All welcome! (vroom vroom)
SPEAKERS
Dr Fraser Elliott is a Lecturer of Film, Exhibition and Curation at the University of Edinburgh, UK where he teaches on a postgraduate course of the same name. His research specialises in the circulation of Chinese-language cinema in international locations, particularly in the United Kingdom. In addition to academic work, he was previously on the programming team at HOME, an independent cinema in Manchester, and continues to curate screenings as a member of the Chinese Film Forum UK and collaborator with the Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh, 2021.
Dr Sarah Feinstein is a Teaching Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries. She has published in Liminalities (2022) and The Prison Memory Archive: A Case Study in Filmed Memory of Conflict (2022).
Dr Joshua Gulam is a Lecturer in Film & Visual Culture at Liverpool Hope University, UK, with a particular interest in star studies and commercial genre cinema. He has published several chapters and articles looking at the on- and off-screen campaigning of stars such as Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, in addition to work on contemporary horror cinema.
posted on behalf of:
Alice Chandler (she/her)
Postgraduate Researcher
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance/pgr/3440/alice-chandler
School of Performance and Cultural Industries
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