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Shopping Mall
Object Lessons
- Bloomsbury Academic
- by Matthew Newton
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
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ISBN | 9781501314827 |
Author(s) | Matthew Newton |
Publication date | September 2017 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 167 x 140 mm |
Pages | 160 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
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.