Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Shopping for Pleasure & “The Art of Necessity”

Chia-Hao Chang
999672426
ASA 004
Prof. Abdullah
29 May 2017
Shopping for Pleasure & “The Art of Necessity”

            In the article, “Shopping for Pleasure” by John Fiske, the author first introduces women are the main driving forces for the shopping mall and they receive enormous amount of pleasure by just shopping at the mall. The Malls are definitely the places for women to show their “power”. Many of them shop for leisure not necessarily buying them when they actually need the stuff they want. Also, in the article, the author suggests there’s an imbalance between genders in Mall culture indicating the Mall is very famine. In the article, “the Art of Necessity”, the author first saying the art has proven the social change and reflects many aspects of people’s cultures and lives. For instance, “the furniture was moved into the road” serves as an example of how people’s perspective of being neat and clean is a work of art, mentioning in the article. The road also symbolizes the art and politics, in which are maintained by the workers and create a social balance. Police also serves as a power on the road.

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