Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews

by Marshall McLuhan, Stephanie Mcluhan, Herbert Marshall Mcluhan

Book Overview

Previously unpublished lectures and interviews by the modern age's preeminent media seer--informal, accessible, provocative.

In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published a series of books that established his reputation as a world-renowned communications theorist and the pre-eminent seer of the modern age. It was McLuhan who made the distinction between "hot" and "cool" media. And it was he who coined the phrases "the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262633175
• ISBN13: 9780262633178
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Spoken words to help the written

For anyone remotely interested in McLuhan, I recommend this book for the following reasons. It is a much easier read than most of McLuhan's work, as it is a collection of interviews and speeches which are necessarily more concise, and were for me much more involving. It gives an insight into McLuhan's theories which can be quite puzzling and abstruse at first. In his speeches and essays, he repeats his same themes in a variety of manners, which help to give the reader a better understanding of the theories. It's no McLuhan for Idiots (I'm not sure if there is such a thing, based on the nature of his works), but it is definitely a very useful and enjoyable companion book.