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Phone Booth
Series: Object Lessons
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This book is ideal for readers interested in cultural history, communication, and design, as well as those nostalgic about disappearing technologies. Fans of essays linking everyday objects with broader social and philosophical themes will find it particularly rewarding.
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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.
Series: Object Lessons
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Critics praise Phone Booth for its entertaining, enlightening, and thoughtful treatment of the cultural history of the phone booth. Johanna Drucker commends Kelly's blend of personal experience with historical and literary contexts, highlighting the phone booth as a unique blend of public exposure and private intimacy. WPR calls it an engaging lament for disappearing spaces, while Avital notes the book’s compelling contribution to understanding speculative telephony.
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ISBN: 9781628924091
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 November 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 23 b&w illustrations
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 118.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Ariana Kelly is a freelance writer and educator. She teaches English literature and comparative religion at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, USA, and has written for, among other publications, The L.A. Review of Books and Salon.
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