Finding McLuhan : the mind, the man, the message / edited by Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, Tracy Whalen, Catherine G. Taylor.

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2015Description: xxx, 303 páginas ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780889773745 (bound)
0889773742 (bound)
9780889773752 (paperback)
0889773750 (paperback)
9780889773837 (pdf)
0889773831 (pdf)
9780889773851 (html)
0889773858 (html)

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Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Additional physical formats: Finding McLuhan.DDC classification:

302.23092

LOC classification:

P 92.5 F494 2015

Contents:

Acknowledgements Introduction: Marshall Mcluhan : transformations/adaptations / Jaqueline McLeod Rogers and Tracy Whalen Section 1: Work/word/play. Teaching McLuhan / Doug Brent ; Marshall McLuhan in an age of labels : the descriptive value of antimodernism / Elizabeth Birmingham and Kevin Brooks ; Exceeding our grasp : McLuhan's all-metaphorical outlook / Yoni Van Den Ede Section 2: Image/figure/ground. Space on the edge : Marshall McLuhan's Marginalia and annotations of Sigfried Giedion and Ernst Gombrich / James F. Scott ; Selling via the "five sense sensorium" : Bertram Brooker, Marshall McLuhan, and the sensory media culture of Toronto 1921-55 / Adam Lauder ; Buffalo tracks and canoe codes : Marshall McLuhan and aboriginal media's dissident genealogy in Canada / Kathleen Buddle Section 3: Space/place/tools. McLuhan and the city / Jaqueline McLeod Rogers ; The library as place : new media and new designs for creating community / Karen Brown and Mary Pat Fallon ; The message in medical imaging media : an analysis of GE healthcare's viscan / Catherine Jenkins Section 4: Politics/sex/religion. McLuhan's politics / Allen Mills ; McLuhan's playboy Playboy's McLuhan / David Linton ; Recovering religion for the history and theory of rhetoric : lessons from Marshall McLuhan / Daivd Charles Gore and David Beard Section 5: Legacy/memory/imagination. Conducting the interviews : legacy/memory/imagination / Jaqueline McLeod Rogers ; Michael McLuhan : protecting the legacy ; Eric McLuhan : living the legacy ; Douglas Coupland: writing McLuhan Contributors Index

Summary: He was right. 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, his sons, and sixteen scholars explore the many ways in which McLuhan's predictions have come true. ; from back cover

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	P 92.5 F494 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000138289

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Marshall Mcluhan : transformations/adaptations / Jaqueline McLeod Rogers and Tracy Whalen
Section 1: Work/word/play. Teaching McLuhan / Doug Brent ; Marshall McLuhan in an age of labels : the descriptive value of antimodernism / Elizabeth Birmingham and Kevin Brooks ; Exceeding our grasp : McLuhan's all-metaphorical outlook / Yoni Van Den Ede
Section 2: Image/figure/ground. Space on the edge : Marshall McLuhan's Marginalia and annotations of Sigfried Giedion and Ernst Gombrich / James F. Scott ; Selling via the "five sense sensorium" : Bertram Brooker, Marshall McLuhan, and the sensory media culture of Toronto 1921-55 / Adam Lauder ; Buffalo tracks and canoe codes : Marshall McLuhan and aboriginal media's dissident genealogy in Canada / Kathleen Buddle
Section 3: Space/place/tools. McLuhan and the city / Jaqueline McLeod Rogers ; The library as place : new media and new designs for creating community / Karen Brown and Mary Pat Fallon ; The message in medical imaging media : an analysis of GE healthcare's viscan / Catherine Jenkins
Section 4: Politics/sex/religion. McLuhan's politics / Allen Mills ; McLuhan's playboy
Playboy's McLuhan / David Linton ; Recovering religion for the history and theory of rhetoric : lessons from Marshall McLuhan / Daivd Charles Gore and David Beard
Section 5: Legacy/memory/imagination. Conducting the interviews : legacy/memory/imagination / Jaqueline McLeod Rogers ; Michael McLuhan : protecting the legacy ; Eric McLuhan : living the legacy ; Douglas Coupland: writing McLuhan
Contributors
Index

He was right. 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, his sons, and sixteen scholars explore the many ways in which McLuhan's predictions have come true. ; from back cover

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