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BL
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991715
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b746085
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Schleier, Merrill.
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Skyscraper cinema : : architecture and gender in American film /\ Merrill Schleier.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xviii, 367 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0816666237
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0816642818
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0816642826
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9780816642816
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9780816642823
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-344) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Constructing the American Skyscraper Film -- 1. From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones: Harold Lloyd's Skyscraper Films -- 2. Icons of Exploitation: Gender and Class Disharmony in the Depression-Era Skyscraper Office -- 3. Masculine Heroes, Modernism, and Political Ideology in The Fountainhead and The Big Clock -- 4. Mid-century Corporate Renewal and Gender Realignment in Executive Suite and Desk Set.
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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 i.
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Masculinity in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Skyscrapers in motion pictures.
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Social classes in motion pictures.
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ARCHITECTURE-- History-- General.
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Masculinity in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- Reference.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Skyscrapers in motion pictures.
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Social classes in motion pictures.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/657
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PN1995.9.S5535S35 2009eb
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| Parallel Title
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Architecture and gender in American film
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