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Four arguments for the elimination of television
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- Creator
- by Jerry Mander
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Morrow, 1978
- Physical Details
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- 371 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780688032746, 0688032745, 0688082742, 9780688082741
- OCLC
- ocm08711999, ocm03240263
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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