Four arguments for the elimination of television /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by Jerry Mander.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Morrow,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1978.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
371 p. ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Bibliography: p. 363-371.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Television broadcasting-- Social aspects-- United States.