Phone Booth

ISBN-13: 9781628924091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str.

USA) Ariana Kelly (Harvard-Westlake School

Opis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Recenzje

An entertaining and enlightening exploration of the cultural history of the phone booth and a lament for the loss of these spaces. WPR: BETA

Spis treści

1. Disconnected 2. Hermit's Hut 3. Our Speed 4. The Phantom Phone Booth 5. Say Anything 6. Fortress of Solitude 7. Significant Portals 8. A Fine and Private Place 9. Glass Case of Emotion 10. The God Booth 11. Only Connect Acknowledgements NotesIndex

O autorze

Ariana Kelly is a freelance writer and educator and teaches English Literature and Comparative Religion at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. She has written for The L.A. Review of Books and Salon, among others.