Phone Booth: Object Lessons - Softcover

Ariana Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628924098 ISBN 13: 9781628924091

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

An archeological object without conservationists, the phone booth exists as a memory to those over thirty and as a strange, curious, and dysfunctional occupier of public space for those under thirty. This book approaches the phone booth as an entity that, in its myriad manifestations in different parts of the world, embodies a cluster of attitudes concerning privacy, freedom, power, sanctuary, and communication. Playing off of varied surfaces literature, film, personal narrative, philosophy, and religion Phone Booth looks at the place of an object on the cusp of obsolescence.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

About this title

About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1628924098
• ISBN 13: 9781628924091
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160