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)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事。

Ariana Kelly對電話亭的文化史進行了有趣而有啟發性的探索，併為電話亭的消失而哀歎。對一些人來説，電話亭是一段美好而遙遠的回憶；對更多的人來説，它是一種奇怪而不正常的空間浪費。作為超級英雄變身、犯罪、通訊、快速變化和其他社會領域應用的場所，電話亭充當了私密活動的小劇場，在公眾的視野中，是封閉和暴露空間的奇妙結合。Ariana Kelly將電話亭視為一個實體，它體現了世界各地人們對隱私、自由、權力、庇護和交流的不同態度。通過文學、電影、個人敍述、哲學和宗教對電話亭的描述，電話亭提供了一個處於過時尖端的物體的明確的描述。

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.

目錄

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

作者簡介

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.