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Four arguments for the elimination of television / by Jerry Mander.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Perennial, 2002, c1978.Description: 371 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0688082742 (pbk.)
  • 9780688082741 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.161
LOC classification:
  • HE8700.8 .M358 2002
Contents:
1. The belly of the beast -- 2. War to control the unity machine -- The mediation of experience -- 3. The walling of awareness -- 4. Expropriation of knowledge -- 5. Adrift in mental space -- The colonization of experience -- 6. Advertising : the standard-gauge railway -- 7. The centralization of control -- Effects of television on the human being -- 8. Anecdotal reports : sick, crazy, mesmerized -- 9. The ingestion of artificial light -- 10. How television dims the mind -- 11. How we turn into our images -- 12. The replacement of human images by television -- The inherent biases of television -- 13. Information loss -- 14. Images disconnected from source -- 15. Artificial unusualness -- 16. The pieces that fall through the filter -- Impossible thoughts -- 17. Television taboo.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level HE8700.8 .M358 2002 1 Available 38060007320880
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-371).

1. The belly of the beast -- 2. War to control the unity machine -- The mediation of experience -- 3. The walling of awareness -- 4. Expropriation of knowledge -- 5. Adrift in mental space -- The colonization of experience -- 6. Advertising : the standard-gauge railway -- 7. The centralization of control -- Effects of television on the human being -- 8. Anecdotal reports : sick, crazy, mesmerized -- 9. The ingestion of artificial light -- 10. How television dims the mind -- 11. How we turn into our images -- 12. The replacement of human images by television -- The inherent biases of television -- 13. Information loss -- 14. Images disconnected from source -- 15. Artificial unusualness -- 16. The pieces that fall through the filter -- Impossible thoughts -- 17. Television taboo.

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