ISBN:
1-5013-1787-3
,
1-62892-411-X
,
1-62892-412-8
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (161 pages) :
,
illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Object lessons
Series Statement:
Object lessons.
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Social interaction.
;
Telephone booths Social aspects.
;
Telephone calls Psychological aspects.
;
Telephone Social aspects.
;
Literary theory
Abstract:
"The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone booth as an entity that embodies diverse attitudes about privacy, freedom, power, sanctuary, and communication in its various forms all around the world. Through portrayals of phone booths in literature, film, personal narrative, philosophy, and religion, Phone Booth offers a definitive account of an object on the cusp of obsolescence."--Amazon website.
Description / Table of Contents:
Disconnected -- Hermit's hut -- Our speed -- The phantom phone booth -- Say anything -- Fortress of solitude -- Significant portals -- A fine and private place -- Glass case of emotion -- The God booth -- Only connect.
Note:
Includes index.
,
Also published in print.
DOI:
10.5040/9781501317873
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