{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"The Fast and the Furious and the transformation of Hollywood","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4885,"description":"The seven-billion-dollar media franchise that is The Fast and the Furious paved the way for a new form of serialized storytelling that balanced new distribution practices and expansion into international markets with a savvy awareness of representational politics. In Fast and Furious Franchising, Dan Hassler-Forest illuminates the films’ improbable success and the crucial role the movies play in the history of the global entertainment industry. Here, Hassler-Forest joins Charles Acland, Mark Bould, and Ida Yoshinaga in conversation.\nDan Hassler-Forest is assistant professor of media and culture studies at Utrecht University. He is author of several books, including Fast and Furious Franchising: How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood; Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label; Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism; and Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age.\n\nCharles Acland is professor of communication studies at Concordia University Montréal. Acland is author of American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder, and editor of Residual Media.\n\nMark Bould is professor of film and literature at University West England in Bristol, United Kingdom. Bould is founding co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television journal and author of many books including The Anthropocene Unconscious and co-editor of The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction.\nIda Yoshinaga is assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is co-editor of Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction and sits on editorial boards of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Science Fiction Studies journal, and the International Journal of Disney Studies. \n\n\nREFERENCES:\nWelcome to the Family / Barry Hertz \nDialectic of Enlightenment / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno\nAmerican Graffiti\nCrystal Skull...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}