<DIV>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.</DIV>
具體描述
讀後感
用戶評價
Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, King Vidor
评分重點幾乎全在序言瞭，關於建築物、建築話語和性彆。早期Harold Lloyd的摩天樓電影；1930年大蕭條時期的摩天樓元素細分；二戰之後的兩部《源泉》和《大鍾》；20世紀中期的摩天樓電影。但實際上對我而言還是第二部分的元素劃分最有意思，包括Kracauer提到過的旅館門廳。
评分重點幾乎全在序言瞭，關於建築物、建築話語和性彆。早期Harold Lloyd的摩天樓電影；1930年大蕭條時期的摩天樓元素細分；二戰之後的兩部《源泉》和《大鍾》；20世紀中期的摩天樓電影。但實際上對我而言還是第二部分的元素劃分最有意思，包括Kracauer提到過的旅館門廳。
评分比想象中好，有批判力。
评分Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, King Vidor
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