Skyscraper Cinema - 9780816642823

Skyscraper CinemaArchitecture and Gender in American Film\nAuthor(s): Merrill Schleier\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816642823, 978-0816642823\nSynopsis\nWhether 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.\n\n Schleier analyzes 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 gen.