TY - BOOK AU - Nicholson,Amy TI - Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor SN - 9780714868011 AV - PN 2205 N624t 2014 U1 - 927 PY - 2014/// CY - Berlin PB - Phaidon KW - 20150600 KW - Cruise, Tom, 1962- KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Actors and actresses KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Schauspieler N1 - A la cabeza de la titularidad: Cahiers du Cinema; Joel Goodsen: Risky Business (1983); Paul Brickman, [director] -- Maverick :Top Gun (1986); Tony Scott, [director] -- Ron Kovic: Born on the Fourth of July (1989); Oliver Stone, [director] -- Lestat de Lioncourt: Interview With the Vampire: the Vampire Chronicles (1994); Niel Jordan, [director] -- Jerry Maguire: Jerry Maguire (1996); Cameron Crowe, [director] -- Dr William Harford: Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Stanley Kubrick, [director] -- Frank "T.J." Mackey: Magnolia (1999); Paul Thomas Anderson, [director] -- Ray Ferrier: War of the Worlds (2005); Steven Spielberg, [director] -- Les Grossman: Tropic Thunder (2008); Ben Stiller, [director] -- Ethan Hunt: Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol (2011); Brad Bird, [director] N2 - 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 ER -