Four arguments for the elimination of television / by Jerry Mander.
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TextPublication details: New York : Morrow, 1978.Description: 371 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0688032745
- 9780688032746
- 0688082742 (pbk.)
- 9780688082741 (pbk.)
- M272F
- HE8700.8 M272F
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Bibliography: p. 363-371.
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.
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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