Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film /

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 corpor...

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Main Author: Schleier, Merrill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
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