UID:
edocfu_9959228337602883
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-88977-385-8
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0-88977-383-1
Content:
In 1965, Tom Wolfe famously asked of Marshall McLuhan: "Suppose he is the oracle of the modern times--what if he is right?" Fifty years later, McLuhan's biographer Douglas Coupland, McLuhan's sons, and sixteen scholars explore the many ways in which McLuhan's predictions have come true.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- MARSHALL MCLUHAN:TRANSFORMATIONS / ADAPTATIONS -- WORK / WORD / PLAY -- TEACHING MCLUHAN -- MARSHALL MCLUHAN IN AN AGE OF LABELS:THE DESCRIPTIVE VALUE OF ANTIMODERNISM -- EXCEEDING OUR GRASP: McLUHAN'S ALL-METAPHORICAL OUTLOOK -- IMAGE / FIGURE / GROUND -- SPACE ON THE EDGE: MARSHALL McLUHAN'S MARGINALIA AND ANNOTATIONS OF SIGFRIED GIEDION AND ERNST GOMBRICH -- SELLING VIA THE "FIVE SENSE SENSORIUM":BERTRAM BROOKER, MARSHALL MCLUHAN, AND THE SENSORY MEDIA CULTURE OF TORONTO 1921-55 -- BUFFALO TRACKS AND CANOE CODES: MARSHALL McLUHAN AND ABORIGINAL MEDIA'S DISSIDENT GENEALOGY IN CANADA -- SPACE / PLACE / TOOLS -- MCLUHAN AND THE CITY -- THE LIBRARY AS PLACE: NEW MEDIA AND NEW DESIGNS FOR CREATING COMMUNITY -- THE MESSAGE IN MEDICAL IMAGING MEDIA:AN ANALYSIS OF GE HEALTHCARE'S VSCAN™ -- POLITICS / SEX / RELIGION -- McLUHAN'S POLITICS -- McLUHAN'S PLAYBOY-PLAYBOY'S McLUHAN -- RECOVERING RELIGION FOR THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF RHETORIC:LESSONS FROM MARSHALL MclUHAN -- LEGACY / MEMORY / IMAGINATION -- CONDUCTING THE INTERVIEWS:LEGACY / MEMORY / IMAGINATION -- MICHAEL McLUHAN:PROTECTING THE LEGACY -- ERIC McLUHAN: LIVING THE LEGACY -- DOUGLAS COUPLAND:WRITING McLUHAN -- CONTRIBUTORS.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-88977-375-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-88977-374-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780889773837
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