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Shopping mall / Matthew Newton.
Author
Newton, Matthew, 1977 January 06-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.
©2017
Description
xii, 158 pages ; 17 cm.
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Subject(s)
Newton, Matthew 1977 Jan. 06-
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Shopping malls
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United States
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History
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Series
Object lessons
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Summary note
" Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From a young age, Matthew Newton understood that the shopping mall offered visitors far more than a collection of stores, it was a place of curiosity, ritual, and fantasy. The mall near Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-the state's first enclosed shopping mall, and the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero's zombie opus Dawn of the Dead-was a destination that drew hundreds of strangers together at any given time; a climate-controlled pleasuredome that boasted the first indoor ice skating rink on the East Coast; and a place where waterfalls, fish ponds, and a monolithic clock tower were illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. Part memoir and part case study, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the shopping mall-not only for the place it holds in our collective memory, but also for the significant role that this ubiquitous public space has played in our shared cultural history. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. "-- Provided by publisher.
"Part memoir and part study of modern life, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the shopping mall and the place it holds in our shared cultural history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148) and index.
Contents
Part one. Childhood
Eternal spring
Paradise unknown
Spaces between
Shopping is a feeling
Part two. Adolescence
Little boxes
White denim
Mall madness
Neon hallways
Young love
Part three. Adulthood
Homecoming
Ghost malls
Utopia interrupted
New futures.
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ISBN
9781501314827 ((paperback))
1501314823 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017007492
OCLC
958782627
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