Skyscraper CinemaWhether tall office buildings, high rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinemas 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 Americas ideologies about