03074nam 2200649Ia 450 991077770900332120230207230212.00-8166-6623-7(CKB)1000000000755480(EBL)433199(OCoLC)320841196(SSID)ssj0000246656(PQKBManifestationID)11200220(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246656(PQKBWorkID)10188965(PQKB)10090463(MiAaPQ)EBC433199(MdBmJHUP)muse39766(Au-PeEL)EBL433199(CaPaEBR)ebr10280044(CaONFJC)MIL523329(EXLCZ)99100000000075548020081016d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSkyscraper cinema[electronic resource] architecture and gender in American film /Merrill SchleierMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20091 online resource (388 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4282-6 0-8166-4281-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-344) and index.Introduction: Constructing the American skyscraper film -- From stumbling blocks to stepping stones : Harold Lloyd's skyscraper films -- Icons of exploitation : gender and class disharmony in the Depression-era skyscraper office -- Masculine heroes, modernism, and political ideology in The fountainhead and The big clock -- Mid-century corporate renewal and gender realignment in Executive suite and Desk set -- Postscript: Recent skyscraper films.Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier establishes and explains the impact of actual skyscrapers on America's ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies. Schleier analyzes cinematic works in which skyscrapers are an iSkyscrapers in motion picturesSex role in motion picturesMasculinity in motion picturesSocial classes in motion picturesMotion picturesUnited StatesHistory20th centurySkyscrapers in motion pictures.Sex role in motion pictures.Masculinity in motion pictures.Social classes in motion pictures.Motion picturesHistory791.43656791.43657Schleier Merrill511219MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777709003321Skyscraper cinema3828312UNINA