03280nam 2200553 450 991079543150332120201023111955.01-5013-1484-X1-5013-1481-51-5013-1483-110.5040/9781501314841(CKB)4340000000253822(MiAaPQ)EBC5309318(OCoLC)1201426441(CaBNVSL)mat01314841(CaBNVSL)9781501314841(EXLCZ)99434000000025382220201023d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierShopping mall /Matthew NewtonLondon, England :Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,2020.London, England :Bloomsbury Publishing,20201 online resource (164 pages)Object lessonsIncludes index.1-5013-1482-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148) and index.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."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.Object lessons.Shopping mallsUnited StatesHistoryLiterary theorybicsscShopping mallsHistory.Literary theory381/.110973LIT006000PHI001000SOC052000bisacshNewton Matthew1977 January 06-1580246DLCCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910795431503321Shopping mall3861021UNINA