
Published online:
01 September 2008
Published in print:
01 November 2008
Online ISBN:
9780199868902
Print ISBN:
9780195335910
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The Classical Hollywood Telephone The Classical Hollywood Telephone
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Dial in Generic Confusion Dial in Generic Confusion
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Telephonic Nightmares Telephonic Nightmares
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Cite
Schantz, Ned, 'Telephonic Film', Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature (New York , 2008; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Sept. 2008), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335910.003.0005, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter considers what our fantasies of the telephone have to do with our fantasies at the movies. It calls out the Classical Hollywood Telephone, the quiet object whose smooth transmission of narrative information bolsters the routine operations of genre and the stable meanings of crime and romance. Exposing this dormant telephone to coincidence makes it possible to chart a path of increasing deviation from the Classical norm, moving from pat disavowals, on through generic confusion (with a long look at the disguised gothic dynamics of Pillow Talk), finally to uncanny nightmares of disconnection and exposure.
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