Skyscraper cinema
Subtitle: architecture and gender in American film
By: Merrill Schleier.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816642816; 9780816642823
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing the American skyscraper film; title: From stumbling blocks to stepping stones : Harold Lloyd's skyscraper films; title: Icons of exploitation : gender and class disharmony in the Depression-era skyscraper office; title: Masculine heroes, modernism, and political ideology in The fountainhead and The big clock; title: Mid-century corporate renewal and gender realignment in executive suite and desk set; title: Recent skyscraper films.