Fast and Bilingual: "Fast & Furious" and the Latinization of Racelessness. Beltrán, M. Cinema Journal, 53:75. OCLC: 9970684500
Fast and Bilingual: "Fast & Furious" and the Latinization of Racelessness [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This article interrogates the immense popularity of Fast & Furious (Justin Lin, 2009), the fourth film in the Fast franchise, with US Latino viewers when it was released, exploring both the film industry's targeting of Latinos in recent years and the potential of and limitations inherent to foregrounding a "bilingual aesthetic" in a franchise known for an ethos of racelessness. Comparisons to the short film Los Bandoleros (Vin Diesel, 2009), included with Fast & Furious on the commercial DVD, highlight borders that still exist when major US studios construct a seemingly multicultural narrative for global audiences
@article{beltran_fast_nodate,
	title = {Fast and {Bilingual}: "{Fast} \& {Furious}" and the {Latinization} of {Racelessness}},
	volume = {53},
	issn = {0009-7101},
	shorttitle = {Fast and {Bilingual}},
	url = {https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4hpamwik9yvicoh84pcmb/Beltr-n-Fast-and-Bilingual.pdf?rlkey=bpqmftfvlbtzbffb16s142pcn&dl=0},
	abstract = {This article interrogates the immense popularity of Fast \& Furious (Justin Lin, 2009), the fourth film in the Fast franchise, with US Latino viewers when it was released, exploring both the film industry's targeting of Latinos in recent years and the potential of and limitations inherent to foregrounding a "bilingual aesthetic" in a franchise known for an ethos of racelessness. Comparisons to the short film Los Bandoleros (Vin Diesel, 2009), included with Fast \& Furious on the commercial DVD, highlight borders that still exist when major US studios construct a seemingly multicultural narrative for global audiences},
	urldate = {2024-01-28},
	journal = {Cinema Journal},
	author = {Beltrán, Mary},
	note = {OCLC: 9970684500},
	keywords = {Actors, Film criticism, Hispanics, Marketing, Motion picture industry, Movies, Multiculturalism, Narratives, Protagonists, Television studies},
	pages = {75},
}

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