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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers, Edited Collection: Starring Tom Cruise</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Tom Cruise is one of the most successful Hollywood film stars of the last 35 years, with a cumulative worldwide box office of nearly $8 billion dollars. His star image moves across genres and forms, is product and franchise,
and is also connected to ‘serious’ cinema through his work with auteurs. His private life has warranted a great deal of attention whether it be through his connection to scientology, his numerous failed marriages, or the ‘queer space’ he is placed within through
fan work and gossip mongering. Cruise is an action hero and romantic lead and yet finds himself in homoerotic and homosocial relationships which unsettle and undermine these heterosexual scripts. Cruise is also an authentic star, who does his own stunts even
as his aging body wanes, and who brings this embodied verisimilitude to the roles he takes on. When a film stars Tom Cruise a series of unruly forces are set in train, which this edited collection intends to assess.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Starring Tom Cruise</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> is looking for chapters of 6,000 to 8,000 words in length to consider the following themes and issues:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">The Cruise star vehicle</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">The Cruise franchise</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Gender and sexuality</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Cruise and masculinity</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Queer space</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Desire</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">The Cruise performance</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Cruise against ‘type’</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Fandom</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">The Cruise monomyth</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">American exceptionalism</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Age and masculinity</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Whiteness</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Marketing and promotions</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Specific film textual analysis</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Religion and faith</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Postmodern Cruise</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Cruise and parody</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">The Cruise confession</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">The Cruise interview</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">The Cruise Marriage</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Authenticity and simulacra</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Hollywood and Cruise</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Star, genre, authorship</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Action</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Style </span>
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB">Transnational Cruise</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The edited collection will contain 12-16 chapters, and the publisher, Wayne State University Press, has shown provisional interest in publishing the volume.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In the first instance could you forward 150-200 word abstracts plus short bibliography to Sean Redmond for
<b>Friday 3<sup>rd</sup> August</b> <b>2018:</b> <a href="mailto:s.redmond@deakin.edu.au">
s.redmond@deakin.edu.au</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Subsequent writing deadlines will be for 2019.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Any questions: <a href="mailto:s.redmond@deakin.edu.au">
s.redmond@deakin.edu.au</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best wishes</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sean </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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