Title: Skyscraper cinema
Description: "Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's tall buidlings 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"--Publisher description.
Subjects: History, Masculinity in motion pictures, Motion pictures, Sex role in motion pictures, Skyscrapers in motion pictures, Social classes in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures, united states, Architecture, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century