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The chosen cultural artifact in American visual culture that intrigued me most is the telephone. The telephone is an object that has been used throughout the years of movies and television. There is a great, maybe even unknown, impact when we here the ring of a telephone.
Content
The phone is what it is, a tool used to connect one person to another and even two yet another person at the same time. The telephone is an object of communication. The characters in a television show or film inarguably hear the sound of a telephone ringing or buzzing.
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Not much can be said about the telephone in regards to form although what can be said has a big impact on what makes a good movie. A director can use the ring or vibration of a telephone to his or her advantage. The sound can definitely raise the tension in an already tense scene: the close call of an undercover police officer being discovered and suddenly the his cell phone rings only to heighten the viewers' fear and the......

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