Skyscraper cinema: architecture and gender in American film/
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
c2009
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Table of 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.