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New McLuhan Biography
Other than the TV movie-like Miracle of the Roadside Radio Announcer, it's been a quiet first week of 2011 so far in the world of media and media history.
And that's one reason why word of a fresh biography of Marshall McLuhan was welcome news a few days ago. The New York Times review of Douglas Coupland's just-published Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! makes it clear to me that this is the new year's first must-have media book.
Coupland, who's better known as a novelist, has apparently brought a lively and efficient (just over 200 pages) approach to the man who coined the iconic (if sometimes overused and often misunderstood) phrases "the medium is the message" and "the global village."
The book's title refers to McLuhan's hysterical cameo in the 1970s Woody Allen film Annie Hall.
(Posted by Feliks Banel)
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Jul 27, 2011
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