Mander, Jerry. <br/><br/>
Four arguments for the elimination of television / 
by Jerry Mander. 
 - New York :  Morrow,  1978. 
 - 371 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 363-371. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0688032745 9780688032746 0688082742 (pbk.) 9780688082741 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>77012558 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Television--Psychological aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HE8700.8  / M272F 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label> / M272F