The call of the mall
by
 
Underhill, Paco.

Title
The call of the mall

Author
Underhill, Paco.

ISBN
9780743235914
 
9780743235921

Personal Author
Underhill, Paco.

Publication Information
New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2004.

Physical Description
227 pages ; 24 cm

General Note
Includes index.

Contents
America shops -- You are here -- A mouse hole -- Dude, where's my car? -- Why malls fear freedom -- I brake for Meanderthals -- Nose and toes -- Sex and the mall -- The Charmin challenge -- Status anxiety and back pockets -- Fun -- Hands-free shopping -- Pushcarts rule -- Mall cuisine -- Breakfast at Cartier -- A man and his mall -- Who is your dad? -- Malls of the world -- Where the girls are -- The mall touch -- Short hills or Seoul? -- Other venues -- Scenes from a mall -- The postmall world.

Abstract
Profiling malls as intersections of American consumer marketing, the media, and street culture, an examination of malls as reflections of commercial and social culture considers what malls mean to ordinary people.

Subject Term
Shopping malls -- United States.
 
Consumption (Economics) -- United States.
 
Consumers -- United States -- Attitudes.

Electronic Access
Sample text http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2003064960-s.html
 
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0630/2003064960-t.html
 
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon053/2003064960.html
 
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon053/2003064960.html


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