MERRILL SCHLEIER
Copyright Date: 2009
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 392
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttt992
Book Description:
Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Merrill Schleier offers close readings of films including Safety Last, Skyscraper Souls, Wife vs. Secretary, Baby Face, The Fountainhead, and Desk Set and explains the impact of actual skyscrapers on America’s ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies.
eISBN: 978-0-8166-6623-2
Subjects: Architecture and Architectural History