RE: Visiting the mall

Jon Goss has a number of articles on malls -- "Once Upon a Time in the
Commodity World: An Unofficial Guide to the Mall of America," Annals
of the Assoc of American Geographers, 89:45-75 (1999) and "The Magic of
the Mall: Form and Function in the Retail Built Environment," Annals of
the Assoc of American Geographers, 83:18-47, could both be useful for
students in terms of how they might think about the landscape, commodity
aesthetics, and politics of malls.


On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Mica Nava wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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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