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CELL PHONES AND CINEMA: FILMIC REPRESENTATIONS OF MOBILE PHONE TECHNOLOGY AND NEW AGENCY
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Pustay, Steven James
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1180537475
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2007, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film (Fine Arts).
Abstract
This work observes representations of telephony in film, examining the shifts occurring in such representations since the advent of mobile telephony. The text will argue that the most important change between past images of land-line telephony and new images of mobile telephony is the shift from impotence to agency. Where once the land-line telephone caused narrative impotence in which a character was unable to affect the outcome of events occurring on the other end of their telephonic connection, new representations of mobile telephony provide agency for the user to accomplish this and other tasks. In addition, it will be theorized that future cinematic characters will inherently possess greater agency than their past counterparts thanks to the mobile phones they will be expected to carry.
Committee
Adam Knee (Advisor)
Pages
73 p.
Subject Headings
Mass Communications
Keywords
Mobile Phones
;
Cellular Phones
;
Film
;
Telephony (film)
;
Telephony (representations)
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Pustay, S. J. (2007).
CELL PHONES AND CINEMA: FILMIC REPRESENTATIONS OF MOBILE PHONE TECHNOLOGY AND NEW AGENCY
[Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1180537475
APA Style (7th edition)
Pustay, Steven.
CELL PHONES AND CINEMA: FILMIC REPRESENTATIONS OF MOBILE PHONE TECHNOLOGY AND NEW AGENCY.
2007. Ohio University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1180537475.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Pustay, Steven. "CELL PHONES AND CINEMA: FILMIC REPRESENTATIONS OF MOBILE PHONE TECHNOLOGY AND NEW AGENCY." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1180537475
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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