Re: Visiting the mall

Anna McCarthy has a great chapter on the uses of television at the mall and 
specific retail spaces in her book "Ambient Television" (Duke). I'd also 
recommend Marianne Conroy's essay called "Discount Dreams: Factory Outlet 
Malls, Consumption, and the Performance of Middle-Class Identity," in 
Social Text 54 (16:1) Spring 1998. She looks at the factory outlet mall to 
discuss, among other things, the blurring of categories of leisure and 
labor and the classed experiences of consumption and shopping.

Mimi Nguyen
PhD. Candidate
Ethnic Studies
University of California
Berkeley