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By Merrill Schleier

ISBN-10: 0816642818

ISBN-13: 9780816642816

From the silent period until eventually the appearance of the Cinemascope-the skyscraper as superstar. even if tall workplace structures, high-rise residences, or lofty inns, skyscrapers were stars in American cinema because the silent period. Cinema's tall structures were variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled company machines. contemplating their interesting range, Merrill Schleier establishes and explains the influence of exact skyscrapers on America's ideologies approximately paintings, relaxation, romance, sexual id, and politics as noticeable in Hollywood movies.

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