Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Anne Klingbeil Advertising and Promotions Coordinator University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/UMinnPress From the silent era until the advent of the Cinemascope-the skyscraper as movie star. 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 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. "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 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. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/schleier_skyscraper.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: <http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html>http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html Follow University of Minnesota Press updates on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/UMinnPress ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org