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Title:
The call of the mall
Author:
Underhill, Paco.
ISBN:
9780743235914

9780743235921
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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.
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