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Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film
- Title
- Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film / Merrill Schleier.
- Author
- Schleier, Merrill.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
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- Description
- xviii, 367 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-344) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 09-4291
- ISBN
- 9780816642816 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0816642818 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816642823 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0816642826 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008045191
- OCLC
- 229031058
- 229031058
- Author
- Schleier, Merrill.
- Title
- Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film / Merrill Schleier.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-344) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 09-4291