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Matthew Newton - Shopping Mall - 9781501314827 - V9781501314827
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Shopping Mall

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Description for Shopping Mall Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCD; JFD; KNPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120. .
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 Dawn of the Dead. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Object Lessons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781501314827
SKU
V9781501314827
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-5

About Matthew Newton
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.

Reviews for Shopping Mall
A smart and empathetic look at this waning icon of 20th-century American consumer culture.
Pittsburgh City Paper
Matthew Newton evokes the American mall as symbol of white flight, aspirational fantasy, and shop-till-you-drop consumerism of the late 1980s. These are striking tales of suburban isolation in which Newton reveals life from the employee side of the counter to the ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Shopping Mall


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