Marshall McLuhan /
McLuhan, Marshall,1911-1980.
Gordon, W. Terrence,1942-
Corte Madera, Calif. : Ginko,
2005.
Cover title.
Set of previously published essays with an introductory volume by W. Terrence Gordon, issued in slipcase.
Includes bibliographical references.
0. General introduction, unbound project -- 1. Printing and social change -- 2. The effect of the printed book on language in the 16th century -- 3. The argument: causality in the electric world -- 4. The relation of environment to anti-environment -- 5. At the moment of Sputnik the planet became a global theater in which there are no spectators but only actors -- 6. Culture without literacy -- 7. The humanities in the electronic age -- 8. Introduction to: The bias of communication -- 9. American advertising -- 10. Inside Blake and Hollywood -- 11. G.K. Chesterton: a practical mystic -- 12. Roles, masks and performances -- 13. Space, time and poetry -- 14. New media as political forms -- 15. Notes on the media as art forms -- 16. The media fit the Battle of Jericho -- 17. The medium is the message -- 18. Myth and mass media -- 19. Laws of the media -- 20. The emperor's old clothes.
Communication.
Mass media.