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The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man (1951) is a study of popular culture by Marshall McLuhan, treating newspapers, comics, and advertisements as poetic texts.
Jan 1, 2008 · The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2008. by Marshall McLuhan (Author) 4.6 20 ratings. See all formats and editions. This book details how sex was first used to sell industrial hardware, how Orphan Annie still keeps the world on track, and how an Arabian Nights wonderland of mass entertainment ...
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ALL OF WHICH MAKES McLuhan’s first book, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, a study of advertising published by the distinguished independent house Vanguard Press in 1951, so strong a marker in his own story, and so captivating today: hilarious, threatening, inspiring, scary for the world it depicts and the solutions it seems ...
Mar 17, 2020 · The mechanical bride : folklore of industrial man. "This brilliant and witty approach to the contemporary scene revolutionized the study of communication theory in our time. Marshall McLuhan's famous pronouncement that 'the medium is the message' is revealed, in this seminal work, by the 'media' themselves--the original advertisements; the ...
The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. by. Marshall McLuhan. Publication date. 1967-01-01. Publisher. Beacon Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
Sep 26, 2016 · This provocative documentary explores the world of artificial companions—from life-sized silicone sex dolls to humanoid robots—and offers a surprisingly human, at times humorous, look at the men who build, animate, and love them. Filmed in the U.S.A., U.K., Japan, and Germany.
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