Shopping mall / Matthew Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Matthew, 1977 January 06- author.

Series:

Object lessons.

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newton, Matthew, 1977 January 06-.

Newton, Matthew.

Shopping malls--United States--History.

Shopping malls.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages).

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

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

ISBN:

9781501314841

150131484X

9781501314810

1501314815

9781501314834

1501314831

OCLC:

1201426441