Shopping Mall - Object Lessons

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The mall near Mat thew 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 . 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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Newton, Matthew (Carnegie Museum of Art Newton, Newton Matthew
• Assisted by: Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9781501314827
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-1482-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 164 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Object Lessons; Object Lessons
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Media Studies, Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Material Culture, United States of America, USA, Retail sector, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Retail and wholesale industries, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings