Papers by merrill schleier
SUNY Press eBooks, Jul 1, 2021
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, May 25, 2020
Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2019
Archi.Pop, 2014
How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional refl... more How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines. Bringing the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, Archi.Pop offers a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we live and the way we interact with the constructed world around us.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 16, 2022
National Conference on Undergraduate Research, 2007
Niagara features a landscape or "place" as a star. Focusing especially on Niagara Falls... more Niagara features a landscape or "place" as a star. Focusing especially on Niagara Falls' multilayered and traumatic history helps us understand the fi lm's ex- ploration of mental instability, eroticism, death, and even the ongoing Korean War. Yet the fi lm's conventional plot structure is unable to resolve its gender, class, and other tensions, which refl ect the fi ssures of midcentury America.
Part 1 The critical response to the skyscraper, 1890-1917. Part 2 Tradition and innovation, 1890-... more Part 1 The critical response to the skyscraper, 1890-1917. Part 2 Tradition and innovation, 1890-1917: the traditional building and the skyscraper construction the skyline the financial district nature and the picturesque. Part 3 Alfred Stieglitz, modernism in America, and a new view of the skyscraper, 1890-1917: Stieglitz and the city the periodicals Alvin Langdon Coburn the celebration of the individual skyscrapers - the Flatiron, Singer, and Woolworth buildings the American modernists - Marin, Weber and Walkowitz New York Dada. Part 4 Skyscraper mania, 1917-1931: aspects of skyscraper enthusiasm - rationality and transcendence Charles Sheeler and the functional skyscraper Margaret Bourke-White and Fortune magazine the Utopians. Part 5 The urban cauldron, 1917-1931: the general failure of American values strand and "Manhatta" (1921) - paradigm of urban ambivalence death and rebirth - Stella, Ault and Hirsch entrapment - the ballet "Skyscrapers" (1926) images of...
The famous closing scenes of the film King Kong (1933) feature the enormous, human-like ape atop ... more The famous closing scenes of the film King Kong (1933) feature the enormous, human-like ape atop the mooring mast of Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon's Empire State Building (1931) in New York, then the tallest building in the world. Before arriving at its crest, a long shot shows him scaling its flank as a tiny speck, foreshadowing his ultimate demise (Illus. 1). His arrival at the summit with blonde Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) in his grasp announces his temporary mastery of the mammoth structure and ocular possession of the entire city. This is corroborated by a preliminary script: "Holding the girl aloft in one hand, he beats his giant breast with the other. He, Kong of the World Before Man, defies the mightiest city ever erected by the hand of man" (Cooper, Wallace, and Creelman 4). In spite of his fleeting triumph and virile presence, Kong's transgressive love is never consummated (Illus. 2). After placing Ann on an adjacent ledge, Kong is shot by men in fighter planes, cau...
Winterthur Portfolio a Journal of American Material Culture, 1988
Architectural Theory Review, 1998
Architectural Theory Review, 1998
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