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Author Schleier, Merrill.
Title Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film / Merrill Schleier.
Publication Info Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.


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Descript xviii, 367 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780816642816 (hbk.)
0816642818 (hbk.)
9780816642823 (pbk.)
0816642826 (pbk.)
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Author Schleier, Merrill.
Subject Skyscrapers in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Social classes in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Descript xviii, 367 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780816642816 (hbk.)
0816642818 (hbk.)
9780816642823 (pbk.)
0816642826 (pbk.)
Author Schleier, Merrill.
Subject Skyscrapers in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Social classes in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 6th Floor  PN 1995.9 S5535 S3  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Skyscrapers in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Social classes in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Descript xviii, 367 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780816642816 (hbk.)
0816642818 (hbk.)
9780816642823 (pbk.)
0816642826 (pbk.)
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