[Reader-list] Fwd: SKYSCRAPER CINEMA

[Iram Ghufran]

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> Anne M Klingbeil <klin0207 at umn.edu>
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> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:56:44 -0500
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> *From the silent era until the advent of the Cinemascope-the 
> skyscraper as movie star.*
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> SKYSCRAPER CINEMA: Architecture and Gender in American Film
> Merrill Schleier
> University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2009
> ISBN 978-0-8166-4281-6 | hardcover | $85.50
> ISBN 978-0-8166-4282-3 | paperback | $28.50
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> 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.
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> "Merrill Schleier's original and fascinating study of movies where 
> office towers and high-rise apartments play carefully scripted roles, 
> provides precisely observed, erudite, and surprising new insights into 
> the cultural and social history of the first half of the 20th 
> Century." -Dietrich Neumann, author of/ Architecture of the Night/
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> Merrill Schleier is professor of art, architectural history, and film 
> studies at the University of the Pacific. She is author of The/ 
> Skyscraper in American Art./
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> For more information, including the table of contents, visit the 
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> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/schleier_skyscraper.html
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