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100 1 _aMander, Jerry.
245 1 0 _aFour arguments for the elimination of television /
_cby Jerry Mander.
260 _aNew York :
_bMorrow,
_c1978.
300 _a371 p. ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aBibliography: p. 363-371.
505 0 _aIntroduction. 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.
520 _aDepicts television as a technological monster, a menace to the psychology of the individual and to the environment, and an instrument of unprecedented autorcratic power.
650 0 _aTelevision broadcasting
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTelevision
_xPsychological aspects.
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