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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. ** Review “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

Who reads Shopping Mall (Object Lessons)?

Author

Matthew Newton; Christopher Schaberg; Ian Bogost

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501314841

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Science

Rating

3.57 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14