« Loved and hated, visited and avoided, seemingly everywhere yet endlessly the same, malls occupy a special place in American life. What, then, is this invention that evokes such strong and contradictory emotions in Americans? In many ways malls represent the apotheosis of Ameri…
"One Nation under Goods is a browser's paradise; to understand America's obsession with consumption, you need to make a trip to the mall with James Farrell as your guide." "This analysis of the hidden secrets of the shopping mall explains how retail designers make shopping and g…
"One Nation under Goods is a browser's paradise; to understand America's obsession with consumption, you need to make a trip to the mall with James Farrell as your guide." "This analysis of the hidden secrets of the shopping mall explains how retail designers make shopping and g…
The shopping experience
by Campbell, Colin, Falk, Pasi
fromTheory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
The shopping experience
by Campbell, Colin, Falk, Pasi
fromTheory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Topics covered include the importance of shopping, its cultural and theoretical significance, supermarkets in the future shopping, pleasure and the sex war, the ethnography of shopping and the 'scopic' regimes of shopping.
This book is about shopping for ordinary things. It is also about love and devotion manifest within families and about the nature of sacrificial ritual. Daniel Miller approaches shopping not as an end in itself but as a means to discover what people's practices, closely observed…
Shops are facing tough times: recession, local legislation, parking problems, competition from the internet and the strong position of suppliers. Buying on the Internet 24/7 has become a real alternative to the local shop with its rigid opening hours and limited choice. So is …
Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to take account of the profound inf…
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.
Presenting a study of shopping, the life of shopping centres and the nature of shoppers, this book offers an understanding of the significance of place and the construction of identity.
Presenting a study of shopping, the life of shopping centres and the nature of shoppers, this book offers an understanding of the significance of place and the construction of identity.
"In eleven original chapters, the contributors to Lived Experience of Public Consumption take the experiences, practices and embodiments of everyday actors in public marketplaces as their points of departure. Drawing upon their work in commercial marketplaces - on the streets an…
