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Sean Redmond

    Starring Tom Cruise
    The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano
    • Starring Tom Cruise

      • 322pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      The book explores Tom Cruise's multifaceted star image, highlighting his roles as both an action hero and romantic lead while navigating complex homoerotic and homosocial dynamics that challenge traditional heterosexual narratives. Edited by Sean Redmond, it emphasizes the significance of star studies in understanding broader societal themes such as masculinity, ethnicity, sexuality, and commercialism, illustrating how a single star can reflect and influence contemporary cultural ideologies.

      Starring Tom Cruise2021
    • The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan’s finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano’s oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano’s films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010).

      The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano2013
      3,5