| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series |
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Desiring Tom Cruise -- Chapter 1. Adolescence and Its Psychological Phases in Tom Cruise's 1980s Teen Films -- Chapter 2. Gazing at Tom Cruise -- Chapter 3. Losing Cruise Control: Disenchantment of Tom Cruise's Star Image in Eyes Wide Shut -- Chapter 4. "Nothing Is 'Impossible' if You're Tom Cruise": Scientology, Spiritual Neoliberalism, and the Tom Cruise Closet -- Chapter 5. Searching for the "Desert of the Real" in the Films of Tom Cruise -- Part II: Genre Cruise |
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Chapter 6. The American Everyman Goes Irish: Gender, Genre, and Ethnicity in Far and Away -- Chapter 7. Cruising the Vampire: Hollywood Gothic, Star Branding, and Interview with the Vampire (1994) -- Chapter 8. Cruising into the Future: The Redemption of "Authentic" Masculinity in the Science Fiction Films of Tom Cruise -- Chapter 9. Cruising the Closed World: The Cold War and the Cyborg in Top Gun, Mission: Impossible, and Minority Report -- Chapter 10. Cruising Stardom in Hollywood Franchising: Tom Cruise as Franchise Star in the Mission: Impossible and Dark Universe Storyworlds |
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Part III: Aging Cruise -- Chapter 11. Tom Cruise as Father and Son -- Chapter 12. "How am I supposed to do this?": The Impossibility of Tom Cruise's Masculine Performance in the Face of His Aging Star Body -- Chapter 13. Starring Tom Cruise as (Desperately Defying) Aging Action Star -- Chapter 14. The Authentically Bruised Cruise: Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible, and Extreme Performative Labor -- Chapter 15. Aging for Life: Tom Cruise in the Era of Functional Fitness -- Filmography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Interdisciplinary star study of one of the most iconic Hollywood celebrities of the last thirty-five years |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Neill, Patrick
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Redmond, Sean
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Tüzün, Defne
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Weber, Brenda R
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Goldberg, Sasha T
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Haywood, Loraine
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Menéndez-Otero, Carlos
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Fhlainn, Sorcha Ní
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Wight, Linda
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| ISBN |
9780814347195 |
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0814347193 |
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