Books
The words Marshall McLuhan remain, 10 years after the Toronto theoretician’s death, fighting words.
June 4, 1989
Marshall McLuhan’s central thesis, that the medium of transmission determines how information is perceived, has obvious implications for a society increasingly saturated with electronic data.
Jan. 28, 1990
OVER HERE: Criticizing America 1968-1989 by Thomas R. Edwards (Rutgers University Press: $15.95).
Nov. 24, 1991
When people call Gerry Fialka to inquire about the Marshall McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club, he may tweak them a bit: “Have you read both McLuhan and the Wake?”
June 24, 1996
June 27, 1996
World & Nation
With image and politics overlapping, TV personalities are in tight races.
Nov. 3, 2008
Movies
Reader Mark Landsbaum, so scornful of The Times for describing “The Bridge on the River Kwai” as an “antiwar movie” (Letters, “ ‘Kwai’s’ Messages,” May 7) reminds me of the fellow pontificating so pompously about Marshall McLuhan in “Annie Hall” that Alvy (Woody Allen) is forced to reach off-screen and produce McLuhan himself in order to refute the guy’s wrongheadedness.
May 14, 2000
“Videodrome,” David Cronenberg’s horror flick swathed in soft porn and satire, is a bizarre subversion of Marshall McLuhan’s most optimistic theories about television’s potential.
May 7, 1992
In his essay on Marshall McLuhan, Thomas Cahill states that “virtually everybody admits to not having finished any of his books. . . .”
July 2, 1989
Entertainment & Arts
Marshall McLuhan wasn’t thinking of period instruments when he made his remark that “the medium is the message.”
March 18, 2000