Shopping Mall

Name: Shopping Mall
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SKU: 9781501314827
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By Matthew Newton

Series: Object Lessons

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Shopping Mall by Matthew Newton explores the cultural and historical impact of shopping malls as significant centres of social and economic activity. Through engaging anecdotes and insights, the book examines how malls have shaped community interactions and consumer habits over the decades, reflecting on their broader influence on society and environment.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the cultural and architectural significance of shopping malls and their evolution over time. Delving into the social and economic impact of these retail spaces, it offers an insightful exploration into how they shape communities and reflect broader societal changes.

Shopping Mall

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.

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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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The mall near Matthew Newton’s childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state’s first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating rink larger than Rockefeller Center’s, and a monolithic clock tower illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. It also became the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero’s zombie opus Dawn of the Dead.

Part memoir and part case study, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the mall and shows that, more than a collection of stores, it is a place of curiosity, ritual, and fantasy.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Shopping Mall by Matthew Newton offers a reflective and empathetic analysis of the shopping mall as a cornerstone of 20th-century American culture. Reviews praise the book for intertwining personal memoir with broader cultural and architectural histories, exploring themes of consumerism, suburban isolation, and nostalgia. Newton's personal anecdotes and thoughtful writing engage readers with both the human stories behind malls and the shifts in American society that led to their decline.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501314827

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 September 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 122.0mm

Height: 164.0mm

Weight: 166g

Pages: 176

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Matthew Newton Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Science & Nature Series: Object Lessons

About the Author

Matthew Newton is Associate Editor at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work has been published by the Oxford American, the Atlantic’s CityLab, Forbes, the Rumpus, Guernica, and Spin.