Time, Space, and the Market: Retroscapes Rising

ISBN-13: 9780765610126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 360 str.

Stephen Brown; Jr. John Sherry

Opis

Retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, are a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. They come in various shapes and forms, from theme restaurants and flagship stores (Planet Hollywood, Niketown) to festival malls and new urbanist communities (Faneuil Hall, Disney's Celebration). This engaging work is the first book devoted exclusively to the subject. Time, Space, and the Market covers a diverse array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con. The contributors are all well known expert commentators, and the editors have published extensively on retromarketing and servicescapes respectively. Together they offer a unique take on a subject with which everyone can identify.

Spis treści

Exhibits, Introduction: Boats Against the Current, 1. No Then There: Of Time, Space, and the Market, Part I: Micro Retroscapes, 2. Bespectacled and Bespoken: Gazing from Throne Zone to Five O’Clock and Head, 3. The Sims and the Retro Future, 4. Corsets, Silk Stockings, and Evening Suits: Retro Shops and Retro Junkies, 5. Comeback for the Craic: A Literary Pub Crawl, 6. Allegorizing the Demise of a Utopian Retroscape: Every Piano Tells a Story, Part II : Meso Retroscapes, 7. Roadside Retroscape: History and the Marketing of Tourism in the Middle of Nowhere, 8. Huntington Beach: The (Re?)Making of Surf City, 9. Travels in Retroreality, 10. Time Travels in Retrospace: Unpacking my Grandfather’s Trunk—Some Introspective Recollections of Life on the Brule, 11. The Moment of Infinite Fire, Part III: Macro Retroscapes, 12. The Lure of Paradise: Marketing the Retro-Escape of Hawaii, 13. Contemporary Haute Cuisine in France: When French Chefs Are Paying Their Tributes to the Past, 14. Retrospecting Retroscapes: Form and Function, Content and Context, 15. The Catalog and the Web Page: An Existential Tension?, 16. Once Upon a Marketplace, Conclusion: What Time Is This Place?, 17. What’s Past Is Prologue: Retroscapes in Retrospect, About the Editors and Contributors, Index

O autorze

Brown, Stephen; Sherry Jr, John F.