Tom Cruise : anatomy of an actor /
This 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 first cast by Francis Ford Coppola...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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London :
Phaidon,
2014.
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Series: | Anatomy of an actor.
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Summary: | This 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 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) This book combines both a narrative and analytical dimension and is illustrated by 300 film stills, set photographs and film sequences. |
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Item Description: | At head of title: Cahiers du Cinema. |
Physical Description: | 190 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 28 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
ISBN: | 9780714868011 (hardback) 0714868019 (hardback) |