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" Four arguments for the elimination of television / "
by Jerry Mander.
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BL
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704628
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b526817
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| Main Entry
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Mander, Jerry.
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| Title & Author
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Four arguments for the elimination of television /\ by Jerry Mander.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Morrow,, 1978.
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371 p. ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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0688032745
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: 0688082742 (pbk.)
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: 9780688032746
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: 9780688082741 (pbk.)
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Bibliography: p. 363-371.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Television broadcasting-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Television-- Psychological aspects.
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HE8700.8.M35
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