Visual Consumption and Coercive Space: An Exploration of Shopping Mall Semiotics Through Cinema

An analysis of the ways Victor Gruen's 1950's standardized shopping mall design has been translated into elements of cinematic mise-en-scene and how this has come to affect characters within the cinematic mall space.

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SUNY Digital Repository Support (State University of New York System)
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2026-08-17
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Cinema and Media Studies
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Visual Consumption and Coercive Space: An Exploration of Shopping Mall Semiotics Through Cinema

Elliot Torres
SUNY Digital Repository Support (State University of New York System)
Cinema and Media Studies
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Visual Consumption and Coercive Space: An Exploration of Shopping Mall Semiotics Through Cinema

Elliot Torres
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An analysis of the ways Victor Gruen's 1950's standardized shopping mall design has been translated into elements of cinematic mise-en-scene and how this has come to affect characters within the cinematic mall space.

SUNY Digital Repository Support (State University of New York System)
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Cinema and Media Studies
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