| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 154 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Object lessons
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Object lessons.
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| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-134) and index. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social interaction.
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Social interaction. |
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Telephone booths -- Social aspects.
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Telephone booths. |
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Social aspects. |
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Telephone calls -- Psychological aspects.
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Telephone calls. |
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Psychological aspects. |
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Telephone -- Social aspects.
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Literary theory. |
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Material culture. |
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Cultural studies. |
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Telephone -- Social aspects. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelly, Ariana. Phone booth. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2015 9781628924107 (DLC) 2015010323 (OCoLC)889997016 |
| ISBN |
9781628924121 (electronic book) |
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1628924128 (electronic book) |
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9781628924114 (electronic book) |
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162892411X (electronic book) |
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9781628924107 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1628924098 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781628924091 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1628924101 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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