Shopping mall / Matthew Newton.

Main entry:

Newton, Matthew, 1977 January 06- author.

Title & Author:

Shopping mall / Matthew Newton.

Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xii, 158 pages ; 17 cm.

Series:

Object lessons

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9781501314827 (paperback)
1501314823 (paperback)
(electronic book)
9781501314834
9781501314810

Subject:

Newton, Matthew, 1977 January 06-
Newton, Matthew, 1977 Jan. 06-
Shopping malls United States History.
Galeries marchandes États-Unis Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY Aesthetics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Media Studies.
Shopping malls
Einkaufszentrum
Objekt
Öffentlicher Raum
Verbrauch
Kulturanthropologie
Industry.
United States

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Object lessons.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 296731
Call No.: BIB 243079
Status: Available

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