Call of the mall
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Format
Book
ISBN
0743235916, 9780743235914, 0743235924, 9780743235921
Physical Desc
227 pages
Status
Burrillville (Jesse Smith) - Adult Non-Fiction
339.47 UND
1 available
339.47 UND
1 available
Cranston Central - Adult Non-Fiction
339 .47 UND
1 available
339 .47 UND
1 available
Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks
339.47 U55c
1 available
339.47 U55c
1 available
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Language
English
ISBN
0743235916, 9780743235914, 0743235924, 9780743235921
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 7.5, 12 Points
Level 7.5, 12 Points
Notes
Description
"Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping, has run hundreds of research assignments in malls across the country (and in Tokyo and European capitals). He has visited them, observed his fellow mall-ers, looked long and hard for his car in mammoth parking lots, chatted up the staffers, gone hunting for jeans with adolescent girls and anniversary shopping with guys." "The result is a bright, ironic, funny, and shred portrait of the mall - America's gift to personal consumption, its most powerful icon of global commercial muscle, the once new and now aging national town square, the place where we convene in our leisure time." "Call of the Mall is about desire and buying lingerie, about why the same camel hair coat costs twice as much in the women's department as it does in the boys'. It's about why shoes, handbags, and cosmetics are clustered, why Cartier is next to cut-rate, and why the movie theater is hard to find."
Description
"It's about the shopping mall as an exemplar of our commercial and social culture, the place where our young people have their first taste of social freedom, and where the rest of us compare notes. Call of the Mall examines how we use the mall, what it means, why it works when it does, and why it sometimes doesn't."--BOOK JACKET.
Action
BSLW RECAT 2023
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Burrillville (Jesse Smith) - Adult Non-Fiction | 339.47 UND | On Shelf |
Cranston Central - Adult Non-Fiction | 339 .47 UND | On Shelf |
Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks | 339.47 U55c | On Shelf |
Woonsocket Harris - Adult Non-Fiction | 306.3 UND | On Shelf |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Underhill, P. (2005). Call of the mall . Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Underhill, Paco. 2005. Call of the Mall. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Underhill, Paco. Call of the Mall Simon & Schuster, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Underhill, Paco. Call of the Mall Simon & Schuster, 2005.
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