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Book SynopsisShopping as an Entertainment Experience explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment feature in our daily lives. Dr. Mark H. Moss examines the department store, the mall, and the e-store to demonstrate how shopping is often the most common leisure experience that people indulge in to occupy themselves.
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Mark Moss enters various sites of consumption in his study of shopping as a leisure activity arousing pleasure and stimulation. To his credit, Moss avoids belittling shoppers' desires to show how people occupy a position precariously balanced between being subject and object; each exhibiting its own form of agency. He draws on theorists from Benjamin to Weber, concepts from Turner's liminality to Debord's spectacle, all written in a style that will engage scholar and student alike. No matter your economic politics, personal tastes, or feelings about shopping—regardless of what you buy—you will likely find someone who looks disturbingly like yourself in this book... -- Daniel S. Traber, Texas A&M University at Galveston; Author of Whiteness, Otherness, and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk
Mark Moss enters various sites of consumption in his study of shopping as a leisure activity arousing pleasure and stimulation. To his credit, Moss avoids belittling shoppers' desires to show how people occupy a position precariously balanced between being subject and object; each exhibiting its own form of agency. He draws on theorists from Benjamin to Weber, concepts from Turner's liminality to Debord's spectacle, all written in a style that will engage scholar and student alike. No matter your economic politics, personal tastes, or feelings about shopping—regardless of what you buy—you will likely find someone who looks disturbingly like yourself in this book. -- Daniel S. Traber, Texas A&M University at Galveston; Author of
Whiteness, Otherness, and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Liminality, Magic, and the Pleasure of the Shopping Place Chapter 2 Shopping, Leisure, and the Spectacle of Entertainment Chapter 3 The Department Store Chapter 4 The Mall Chapter 5 The E-Store Chapter 6 Shopping as Entertainment Therapy Chapter 7 Shopping as an Edu-tainment Experience, Dressing History: The Domain of Lauren Chapter 8 Shopping as a Cultural Experience: Museums, Merchandising, and the Marketing of Culture
