Tom Cruise: Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood by Ruth O'Donnell (

Description: Tom Cruise by Ruth O'Donnell American modern masculinity reviewed through Cruises career. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Tom Cruise is a Hollywood superstar like no other. World famous since his debut in the 1980s, he remains among the highest paid actors. Why has his persona resonated so powerfully with millions of viewers? Using psychoanalytic theory, "Tom Cruise: Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood" demonstrates how his star persona sublimates anxieties about masculinity. Amid Reagan-era military jingoism and concern over declining industrial labour, he represented a new model of American masculinity based on white-collar upward mobility. Spanning blockbuster films such as Risky Business (1983), Jerry Maguire (1996) and the Mission: Impossible series (1996 - 2011), this book illustrates how his characters exemplify entrepreneurialism, charisma, technological gadgetry and verbal acuity to redefine male success. His newly emotive type - help me help you - also successfully overcomes interpersonal conflicts with patriarchal authority and senior women in the workplace, and navigates race relations. The first scholarly study of Tom Cruises celebrity, this book surveys his entire career and builds on Richard Dyers star theory.It develops the core dynamic of his star persona, a mix of projected character traits and real life trivia or gossip, and establishes that his box office success reflects his personas ability to work through the psychodynamic preoccupations of his films. This exceptional appeal evolved, at times characterised by complicity with 1980s materialistic hedonism (Taps, 1981), male spectacle (Magnolia, 1999), or his use of martial technology (War of the Worlds, 2005), and their attendant psychic meanings. Recent shifts in American culture, however, in tandem with Tom Cruises growing evangelism for the Church of Scientology, may be threatening his appeal. Ultimately, this book offers a picture of how stars reflect the values and crises of their societies, and fills a substantial gap in scholarship on celebrity studies, critical cultural analysis, masculinity studies, and film theory. Author Biography Ruth ODonnell is an expert on masculinity and Hollywood culture. She obtained her doctorate from Royal Holloway, University of London, where she has also taught courses on the culture of celebrity. Her publications include a psychoanalytic reading of the film Twilight and an upcoming study of the detective films of Robert Downey Jr. Her research interests encompass gender performance, new media platforms and the future of film, and star studies. Table of Contents Introduction: Masculinity and Performance in the Screen Persona of Tom Cruisep.4Chapter One: The Tom Cruise Personap.50Chapter Two: Male Bonding - Gender, Homoeroticism and the Performing Tom Cruisep.113Chapter Three: Male Bonding - The Racial Otherp.179Chapter Four: Tom Cruise, Minority Report and the Repetition of Abuse p.220Chapter Five: The Sacrificial Body of Cruisep.262The Star Persona of Tom Cruise: Conclusionp.303Bibliographyp.321 Promotional American modern masculinity reviewed through Cruises career. Promotional "Headline" American modern masculinity reviewed through Cruises career. Details ISBN1784530522 ISBN-10 1784530522 ISBN-13 9781784530525 Series International Library Of The Moving Image Format Hardcover Media Book Short Title TOM CRUISE Language English Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-09-30 Pages 224 Subtitle Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood UK Release Date 2015-09-30 Imprint I.B. Tauris Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 30 integrated bw NZ Release Date 2015-09-30 Edited by Claire Webster Birth 1935 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications M.S., RN-CS, Pnp Author Ruth ODonnell Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 791.43028092 Audience General AU Release Date 2015-09-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96111020;

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