Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Contents:
III. Aging Cruise -- Michael DeAngelis. I. Desiring Tom Cruise -- Aging for life: Tom Cruise in the era of functional fitness / Patrick O'Neill -- Gazing at Tom Cruise / Sean Redmond -- Losing cruise control: disenchantment of Tom Cruise's star image in Eyes Wide Shut / Defne Tüzün -- "Nothing is 'Impossible' if you're Tom Cruise": Scientology, spiritual neoliberalism, and the Tom Cruise closet / Brenda R. Weber and Sasha T. Goldberg -- Searching for the "Desert of the real" in the films of Tom Cruise / Loraine Haywood -- II. Genre Cruise -- The American everyman goes Irish: gender, genre, and ethnicity in Far and Away / Carlos Menéndez-Otero -- Cruising the vampire: Hollywood gothic, star branding, and Interview with the Vampire / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn -- Cruising into the future: the redemption of "authentic" masculinity in the science fiction films of Tom Cruise / Linda Wight -- Cruising the closed world: the Cold War and the cyborg in Top Gun, Mission: Impossible, and Minority Report / Alex Wade -- Cruising stardom in Hollywood franchising: Tom Cruise as franchise star in the Mission: Impossible and Dark Universe storyworlds / Tara Lomax -- III. Aging Cruise -- Tom Cruise as father and son / Adam Daniel -- "How am I supposed to do this?": the impossibility of Tom Cruise's masculine performance in the face of his aging star body / Ruth O'Donnell -- Starring Tom Cruise as (desperately defying) aging action star / Glen Donnar -- The authentically bruised Cruise: Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible, and extreme performance labor / Justin Owen Rawlins -- Aging for life: Tom Cruise in the era of functional fitness / Michael DeAngelis.
Summary:
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. -- Publisher website.
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