About the Author

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.

Reviews

Finished reading Starring Tom Cruise today. I highly recommend it to scholars working in star/celebrity studies. Each essay in Redmond's collection offers new approaches to thinking about Tom Cruise's stardom. The approaches used include focus on his masculinity, aging body, queerness of his stardom, and his importance as part of IP focus of Hollywood. Redmond's collection offers a model which scholars working on stardom/celebrity could use to develop future projects.--Brian Faucette "Twitter"

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"

Sean Redmond's first-rate edited collection offers detailed consideration of the most important roles in Cruise's successful decades-long career. This wide-ranging volume also covers essential new ground for the analysis of contemporary Hollywood stardom. Its insightful cross-disciplinary examination of the star's perpetual border crossing makes this book an unmissable read. Stars like Tom Cruise never seem to lose their shine. This book enables us to understand why.--Virginia Luz�n-Aguado "Harrison Ford: Masculinity and Stardom in Hollywood"

The contributors work hard to unpick the tightly woven image that Cruise has cultivated over his career, seeking to reveal his repressed anxieties and trying to come to terms with the complexities underneath his desirability.--Andrew Key "Los Angeles Review of Books"

What this new volume gets right is its insistence that Cruise's stardom isn't peripheral to the films in which he acts. Instead, that stardom indelibly shapes and limits the sort of interpretations his films occasion.--J. D. Schnepf "Celebrity Studies"