RE: Visiting the mall

There's an excellent funny and theoretically informed video on malls in
north America made by Andy Lambert as part of a very good BBC series on
shopping in about 1996. It raises good questions about modernity,
postmodernity, urban spaces, surveillance, pastiche, spectatorship, race
etc and includes interviews with mall architects and theorists - as well
as shoppers.  My students love it and it's very good at generating
discussion. I think it may be hard to get it from the BBC but Andy
Lambert might be able to help. He can be contacted on
andy.lambert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The series also includes a good video on
department stores made by Renee Knight.

Mica Nava
Professor of Cultural Studies
School of Cultural and Innovation Studies
University of East London
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-----Original Message-----
From: FRED A FEJES [mailto:fejes@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 16 February 2004 14:06
To: CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies
Subject: [cultstud-l] Visiting the mall


In the class I teach "Media, Identity and Post Modern Society" students 
have elected  as their field trip to  visit a number of Boca Raton's 
shopping malls.

Obviously they've all been there before, but this time hopefully they 
will  visit with a new appreciation of the mall as a dedicated cultural 
space where , through a combination of visual, spatial, aural and 
aromatic media,  a certain type of experience and subjectivity is 
created.

To prepare them for this journey, I am looking for material for them to 
read dealing with shopping malls as a cultural experience .  I have  
material  written by cultural geographers, but was wondering if anyone  
can suggest additional readings.

I really appreciate   this list and  the way it allows one to draw upon 
the collective knowledge and experience of the cutural studies 
community.   This is a valuable resource.



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Fred Fejes PhD
Professor, Department of Communication
Director, University Scholars Program
240 GCS
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades RD
Boca Raton FL 33431

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