Re: Visiting the mall

You might also browse through Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (now in an
excellent Harvard UP edition, I believe), which has scattered brilliant
insights on shopping, site, etc, that would provide a useful historical
perspective.   I have my students visit a mall and do some structuralist
binary reporting on aspects of it; I'll see if I can rustle up the handout
or assignment and pass it along.  The Morris essay is fine, though a
little more helpful on the ideology of mall construction and history than
on a hands-on analysis.

Don Hedrick
Department of English
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, FRED A FEJES wrote:

>
> 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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