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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerry Mander |
ISBN: | 0688032745 9780688032746 0688082742 9780688082741 |
OCLC Number: | 3240263 |
Description: | 371 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction. The belly of the beast ; War to control the unity machine -- The mediation of experience. The walling of awareness ; Expropriation of knowledge ; Adrift in mental space -- The colonization of experience. Advertising : the standard-gauge railway ; The centralization of control -- Effects of television on the human being. Anecdotal reports : sick, crazy, mesmerized ; The ingestion of artificial light ; How television dims the mind ; How we turn into our images ; The replacement of human images by television -- The inherent biases of television. Information loss ; Images disconnected from source ; Artificial unusualness ; The pieces that fall through the filter -- Impossible thoughts. Television taboo. |
Responsibility: | by Jerry Mander. |
Abstract:
Depicts television as a technological monster, a menace to the psychology of the individual and to the environment, and an instrument of unprecedented autorcratic power.
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