| SKU | 9780714868011 |
|---|---|
| Title | Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor |
| Author Description | Amy Nicholson |
| Uri | store/cahiers-du-cinema/tom-cruise-anatomy-of-an-actor-9780714868011/ |
| Web Author Description | Amy Nicholson is the head film critic for the LA Weekly. Her reviews, interviews, and essays are syndicated in The Village Voice and ten other papers in the Voice Media Group chain, and she cohosts its weekly Voice Film Club podcast. She is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. |
| webLongDescription | The Anatomy of an Actor series takes ten roles by a single
actor, each studied in a dedicated chapter, and identifies the key
elements that made the performances exceptional – carefully examining
the actor’s craft for both a professional audience and movie fans alike. Tom Cruise (born 1962), first cast by Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders (1983), gained international notoriety in the mid-1980s thanks to Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986). One of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, Cruise has
oriented his career to blockbusters, starring in Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005) and the Mission: Impossible series (1996, 2000, 2006, 2011) An accessible text combines both a narrative and analytical dimension and is illustrated by 300 film stills, set photographs and film sequences. |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Size | Size: 270 x 210 mm (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in) |
| Pages | Pages: 192 |
| Illustrations | 0 |
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