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Can I read Tom Cruise: Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood (International Library of the Moving Image) on EtoBox?
Tom Cruise: Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood (International Library of the Moving Image) by O’Donnell, Ruth is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tom Cruise: Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood (International Library of the Moving Image) about?
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.
Who reads Tom Cruise: Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood (International Library of the Moving Image)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- O’Donnell, Ruth
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited; I.B. Tauris
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780857729323
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Memoir, Performing Arts, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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