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Terms and conditions applySkyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film
Merrill Schleier
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Format: Book
Pages: 368
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: Jul 2009
Stock Code: 66991
Binding: Paperback
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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. Cinemas 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 Americas ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies.
Schleier analyses cinematic works in which skyscrapers are an integral component, interpreting the iconography and spatial practices in these often fictional modern buildings, especially on concepts of gender. Organised chronologically and thematically, she offers close readings of films including Safety Last, Skyscraper Souls, Wife vs. Secretary, Baby Face, The Fountainhead, and Desk Set.
Taking inspiration from Walter Benjamins Arcades Project, among works of other critical theorists, Schleier creates in this book a model for understanding architecture as a purveyor of desire and class values and, ultimately, contributes broadly to thinking on the rich intersection of the built environment, cinema, and gender.
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