Shopping Mall (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501314827)

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.

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.

Author: Matthew Newton
ISBN-10: 1501314823
ISBN-13: 9781501314827
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2017
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.40h x 4.80w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/24/2017
Shelf Awareness 09/29/2017