There are so many films that prominently and centrally feature phones ...
However, in terms of writings that mention a lot of relevant titles, there's
a famous essay by David Thomson from FILM COMMENT in mid 80s called (I
think) just "Telephones" - but watch out for this one, it contains many
'fictitious' attributions of fantastic-sounding quotes to people like Godard
and Chris Marker (which have been subsequently cited 'straight'!) - and also
(ahem) a chapter in my 1994 book PHANTASMS called "Hanging on the
Telephone".
There is also a terrifically philosophical analysis in a late 80s POSITIF by
Alain Masson of Jean-Claude Brisseau's WHITE WEDDING, which describes it as
a film in the vein of Simone Weill and also 'un film telephonique'!! It's
one of the great telephone melodramas (and seems completely unknown in Anglo
film cultures).
Adrian
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