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UNINA9910807798303321 |
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Newton Matthew <1977 January 06-> |
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Titolo |
Shopping mall / / Matthew Newton |
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London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2020 |
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London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020 |
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ISBN |
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1-5013-1484-X |
1-5013-1481-5 |
1-5013-1483-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 pages) |
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LIT006000PHI001000SOC052000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Shopping malls - United States - History |
Literary theory |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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."-- |
"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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