Skyscraper cinema: architecture and gender in American film/

Main Author: Schleier, Merrill
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2009
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260 |a Minneapolis:  |b University of Minnesota Press,  |c c2009 
300 |a xviii, 367 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 26 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-344) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Skyscrapers in motion pictures 
650 0 |a Sex role in motion pictures 
650 0 |a Masculinity in motion pictures 
650 0 |a Social classes in motion pictures 
650 0 |a Motion pictures  |x History  |y 20th century  |z United States 
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