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Shopping Mall: Object Lessons - Softcover

Buch 29 von 103: Object Lessons

Newton, Matthew

 
9781501314827: Shopping Mall: Object Lessons
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1501314823 ISBN 13: 9781501314827
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew Newton is Associate Editor at the Carnegie Museum of Art, USA. He has written for, among others, The Oxford American, Esquire, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Rumpus, Guernica, and Spin.

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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.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1501314823
ISBN 13 
9781501314827
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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