Publication

2009 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

91,750 words, Guess

Page Count

367 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveskyscrapercinema0000schl
  • ISBN-139780816642816
  • ISBN-139780816642823
  • ISBN-100816642818
  • ISBN-100816642826
and 7 more
  • LibraryThing8318982
  • Goodreads6021148
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008045191
  • OCLC Control Number229031058
  • Better World Books9780816642816
  • Better World Books9780816642823
  • Open LibraryOL22665472M

Classifications

  • DDC791.43/657
  • LCCPN1995.9.S5535 S35 2009
  • LCCPN1995.9

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

Other Editions

  • Skyscraper cinemaUniversity of Minnesota Press2009

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