Marshall McLuhan
1911 (113 года)
Twist
Ron Mann
Cholly Atkins, Hank Ballard
Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with engaging interviews, this groovy documentary chronicles the evolution of the titular postwar rock ’n' roll dance craze that took America by storm. Featuring singers and musicians who helped define the phenomenon like Hank Ballard, Chubby Checker, and Joey Dee, as well as clips from TV shows like “American Bandstand,” TWIST tells the overlooked story of how shaking your hips went from being a sign of social degeneracy to the dance form that rocked the world.
Twist
Suite 212
Nam June Paik
Russell Connor, Charlotte Moorman
Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a fragmented tour of the city. Paik critiques the selling of New York by multinational corporations and the city's role as the master of the media and information industries; Collaborators Yalkut, Davis and Kubota contribute their own vibrant and punchy segments.
Suite 212
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
Guy Fraumeni, Ernest Pintoff
Edward Binns, Marshall McLuhan
Investigates the central ideas of Marshall McLuhan using pictorial techniques and including his own comments. Examines the reaction of others to his views and points out that his interest is the impact of electronic technology on the contemporary world.
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan
Carl Bessai
Marshall McLuhan, Paul Levinson
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media with which people communicate than by the content of the communication." - Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan, one of Canada's most influential and controversial figures, burst into the center of media circles in North America with his strange and prophetic pronouncements - "electric light is pure information" - on advertising, television, and the emerging computer age. "Out Of Orbit" also pays tribute to McLuhan, his message, and the way in which his theories and words have penetrated and influenced the consciousness of today's media-literate society.
Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan
