- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 367 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Skyscraper cinema (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Skyscraper cinema (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-344) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2008045191
- OCLC
- ssj0000246656
- Author
Schleier, Merrill.
- Title
Skyscraper cinema [electronic resource] : architecture and gender in American film / Merrill Schleier.
- Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-344) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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