Description: Students, scholars, and readers of film, media, and celebrity studies will enjoy this deep dive into a complex Hollywood figure.
Brief description: Sean Redmond is professor of screen and design at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Celebrity, Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age, Celebrity and the Media, and The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood. He is the founding editor of Celebrity Studies, short-listed for best new academic journal in 2011.
Review Quotes:
Moreover, as well as textual analysis of Cruise's films, the contributors use a wide range of press coverage, biographies, documentary, websites, reality television and social media posts, alongside academic literature, to explore Cruise's complex image and longevity as a star. An excellent read for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Cruise and his work.
--Gillian Kelly "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television"