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Starring Tom Cruise (Hardcover)
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Starring Tom Cruise (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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Starring Tom Cruise examines how Tom Cruise's star image moves
across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers
viewers certain pleasures and expectations. Cruise reads as an
action hero and romantic lead yet finds himself in homoerotic and
homosocial relationships that unsettle and undermine these
heterosexual scripts. In this volume, editor Sean Redmond shows how
important star studies is not just to understanding the
ideological, commercial, and cultural significance of one star but
to seeing how masculinity, ethnicity, sexuality, and commodity
relations function in contemporary society. The volume is divided
into three parts. Part 1 explores the ways that Cruise's star image
and performances are built on a desiring gaze, nearly always
complicated by perverse narrative arcs and liminal character
relationships. This section also explores the complex and
contradictory ways he embodies masculinity and heterosexuality.
Part 2 places Cruise within the codes and conventions of genre
filmmaking and the way they intersect with the star vehicle. Cruise
becomes monomythical, heroic, authentic, and romantic, and at the
same time, he struggles to hold these formulas and ideologies
together. Part 3 views Cruise as both an ageless totemic figure of
masculinity who does his own stunts, as well as an aging star-his
body both the conduit for eternally youthful masculinity and a
signifier of that which must ultimately fail. These readings are
connected to wider discursive issues concerning his private and
public life, including the familial/patriarchal roles he takes
on.Scholars writing for this collection approach the Cruise star
image through various vectors and frames, which are revelatory in
nature. As such, they not only demonstrate the very best traditions
of close ""star"" textual analysis but also move the approach to
the star forward. Students, scholars, and readers of film, media,
and celebrity studies will enjoy this deep dive into a complex
Hollywood figure.
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