TY  - GEN
T1  - Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film
A1  - Schleier, Merrill
LA  - English
PP  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn320841196
AB  - 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.
OP  - 367
CN  - PN1995.9.S5535 S35 2009eb
SN  - 9780816666232
SN  - 0816666237
SN  - 9780816642816
SN  - 0816642818
SN  - 9780816642823
SN  - 0816642826
KW  - Skyscrapers in motion pictures.
KW  - Sex role in motion pictures.
KW  - Masculinity in motion pictures.
KW  - Social classes in motion pictures.
KW  - Motion pictures : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Gratte-ciel au cinéma.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma.
KW  - Masculinité au cinéma.
KW  - Classes sociales au cinéma.
KW  - Cinéma : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference.
KW  - ARCHITECTURE : History : General.
KW  - Masculinity in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Sex role in motion pictures
KW  - Skyscrapers in motion pictures
KW  - Social classes in motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -