Object Lessons: Phone Booth

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 160 pages, 23 b&w illustrations

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781628924091

Published:5 Nov 2015

Weight:154g

Dimensions:123 x 237 x 14 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《实例研究》系列内容简短，设计精美，探索生活中常见物件的鲜为人知的故事。

Ariana Kelly对电话亭的文化史进行了有趣而有启发性的探索，并为电话亭的消失而哀叹。对一些人来说，电话亭是一段美好而遥远的回忆；对更多的人来说，它是一种奇怪而不正常的空间浪费。作为超级英雄变身、犯罪、通讯、快速变化和其他社会领域应用的场所，电话亭充当了私密活动的小剧场，在公众的视野中，是封闭和暴露空间的奇妙结合。Ariana Kelly将电话亭视为一个实体，它体现了世界各地人们对隐私、自由、权力、庇护和交流的不同态度。通过文学、电影、个人叙述、哲学和宗教对电话亭的描述，电话亭提供了一个处于过时尖端的物体的明确的描述。

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.

目录

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

Notes

Index

作者简介

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.