Tom Cruise (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Ruth O'Donnell | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

Tom Cruise is a Hollywood superstar like no other. Why has his persona resonated so powerfully with millions of viewers? This book examines blockbuster films such as Risky Business (1983), Jerry Maguire (1996) and the Mission: Impossible series (1996 - 2011) to explain how he epitomised a new post-Vietnam American masculinity. Countering anxiety about the loss of traditionally male industries in the 1980s, his characters are entrepreneurial, charismatic and socially mobile white-collar workers. They successfully negotiate patriarchal authorities, senior women in the workplace and race relations. Recent shifts in American culture, however, in tandem with Tom Cruise's growing evangelism for the Church of Scientology, may be threatening his appeal. Using psychoanalytic theory, this book illustrates how star personas speak to contemporary concerns, and fills a substantial gap in scholarship on celebrity studies, masculinity and film theory.