- "...the most comprehensive overview available of McLuhan's lifeand work. ...a must for any academic library collection serving programs injournalism, mass communications, Film & TV studies, or popular culture"
- Gary Handman
From Video Librarian, May/June, 1997
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- "...an adroitly edited, six-video collection of Marshall McLuhan'spublic pronouncements, entertainingly anchored by Tom Wolfe... guaranteed tobecome a hardy perennial of media studies syllabi."
- Gary Wolf
From Wired, June, 1997
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 "...thisis definitely an item you should consider adding to your video collections!It's definitely an essential piece of media history."- Sr. Patt Walsh, IHM,
Marywood College
From the Collegeand University Media Review, spring 1997
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- "...an important collection of archival footage... This is awell-produced series, a multi-part think-piece for students in communicationstheory, popular culture, television and politics, anthropology and advertising."
- Suzanne Huffman,
Professor of Mass Communication,Southern Methodist University
From the Journalism and MassCommunication Educator, 1997
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- " ...a priceless archive for students, teachers and scholars.They will find a more accessible, even unmediated encounter than is possiblethrough his books... Scholars, in particular, will find suggestions forresearch and scholarship aplenty, enough to sustain many an intellectuallifetime. "
- James Carey,
Columbia University
From Journalismand Mass Communication Quarterly, Spring 1997 (in press)
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- " ...gathers the best archival video material on or with MarshallMcLuhan to date."
- Derrick De Kerkhove,
Director, McLuhan Program in Culture& Technology, University of Toronto
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- " ...explores [McLuhan's] pathbreaking ideas in a remarkableaccessible form... should be required viewing for students... and offerschallenging material even for experts"
- Christopher Innes,
Department of English, York University
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- " ... these indispensable video documents ... preserve for us theplay and exploration of a unique sensibility, part poet, part philosopher, partmerry intellectual prankster, part searing critic."
- Bruce Powe,
author of Outage: A Journey Into Electric City(Random House), The Solitary Outlaw, and A Canada of Light
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- "... a very timely production and satisfying in its completeness. Highly recommended..."
- Ian Crellin,
Audiovisual Library, University of Toronto
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- Torquay accommodation"Elegantly narrated by Tom Wolfe... The Video McLuhan provides aninvaluable record for all students of media and of the work of Marshall McLuhan."
- Peter Harcourt,
School for Studies in Art and Culture,Film Studies, Carleton University
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- "...a library of treasures ... essential viewing for thoseinterested in the writings and theories of one of the major thinkers of the 20thcentury. ... necessary addition for any library interested in the media.."
- David Staines,
English Department, University of Ottawa
author, Beyond the Provinces: Literary Canada at Century's End (University ofToronto Press, 1995)
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- "At last the intellectual equivalent of the Beatles Anthologyappears... featuring LONG enticing excerpts and lectures by Marshall McLuhan."
- Tom Cooper,
Mass Communication, Emerson College
Fromthe Journal of Film and Video, 1997
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