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Producer-director Norman Jewison, left, demonstrates how he wants an actor to wash the feet of Jesus, portrayed by Ted Neeley, during filming of the movie version of the rock musical, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ in October 1972. (AP Photo, File)

Making emotional films: The enticing contradictions of Norman Jewison’s movies

Lisa Coulthard, University of British Columbia

A tension between cult, critical and popular appeal is part of Norman Jewison’s most prominent legacy.
The ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise’s focus on kinship allows the films to swerve around narrative logic and whiz past characterization. (Universal Pictures)

Fast & Furious 9: The spectacular melodrama is exactly what a return to cinema needs

Lisa Coulthard, University of British Columbia and Lindsay Steenberg, Oxford Brookes University

The ‘Fast and Furious’ films pay fetishistic attention to the movements, sounds and shiny surfaces of machines. But family is the moral centre of the fanchise.

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