1. Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Merrill. Schleier 
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Description: Hardback. New. Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's 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 America's ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies. 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 gender. Organized chronologically and thematically, she offers close readings of films including Safety Last, Skyscraper Souls, Wife vs. Secretary, Baby Face, The Fountainhead, and Desk Set. Opening with the humorous antics of Harold Lloyd, the premier skyscraper actor of the silent era, the book moves through the disillusionment of the Depression era, in which skyscrapers are employed as players in moralistic, class-conscious stories, to post-World War II and its reimagining of American political and economic values and ends with the complicated prosperity of the 1950s and the lives of white-collar workers and their spouses. Taking inspiration from Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, among works of other critical theorists, Schleier creates in this book a model for understanding architecture as a purveyor of desire and class values and, ultimately, contributes broadly to thinking on the rich intersection of the built environment, cinema, and gender. ISBN 0816642818 9780816642816 [GB] 

2. Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Merrill Schleier 
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Description: ISBN10: 0816642818, ISBN13: 9780816642816, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press] Hardcover Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. . . 2009. hardcover. . . . . [Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2009]  

3. Skyscraper Cinema Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Schleier Merrill 
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Description: Univ of Minnesota Pr, Date: 2009. Hardcover. New. 367 pages. 10.00x7.25x1.25 inches. 2009. Univ of Minnesota Pr ISBN 0816642818 9780816642816 [GB] 

4. Skyscraper Cinema – Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Schleier, Merrill 
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5. Skyscraper Cinema : Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Schleier, Merrill 
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Description: ISBN10: 0816642818, ISBN13: 9780816642816, [publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press] Hardcover [Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]  

6. Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Merrill. Schleier 
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7. Skyscraper Cinema : Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Schleier, Merrill 
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8. Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Merrill Schleier 
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Description: University of Minnesota Press 2009 Hard cover New Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30...2009. hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop. 

9. Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Schleier, Merrill 
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Description: Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota Press 2009 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. 

10. Skyscraper Cinema – Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Schleier, Merrill 
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Description: Univ of Minnesota Pr 2009 Hardcover New 367 pages. 10.00x7.25x1.25 inches. 

11. Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film
by Merrill Schleier 
Price: USD 147.13
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Description: ISBN10: 0816642818, ISBN13: 9780816642816, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press] Hardcover Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. . . 2009. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]