Four arguments for the elimination of television/ (Record no. 163540)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0688082742 (pbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0688032745 |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 301.161 |
| Item number | MAN/F |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mander, Jerry. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Four arguments for the elimination of television/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Jerry Mander. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Morrow, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1978. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 371 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Bibliography: p. 363-371. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | I The Belly of the Beast<br/>Adman Manque — Engulfed by the Six<br/>ties — The Replacement of Experience —<br/>The Unification of Experience<br/>n War to Control the Unity<br/>Machine<br/>Advancing from the Sixties to the Fifties —<br/>Style Supersedes Content — Television at<br/>Black Mesa — The Illusion of Neutral Tech<br/>nology — Before the Arguments: A Comment<br/>on Style<br/>FOUR ARGUMENTS FOR THE<br/>ELIMINATION OF TELEVISION<br/>Argument One<br/>THE MEDIATION<br/>OF EXPERIENCE<br/>in The Walling of Awareness<br/>Mediated Environments — Sensory-Depriva<br/>tion Environments — Rooms inside Rooms<br/>IV Expropriation of Knowledge<br/>Direct Education — Motel Education<br/>V Adrift in Mental Space<br/>Science Fiction and Arbitrary Reality —<br/>Eight Ideal Conditions for the Flowering of<br/>Autocracy — Popular Philosophy and Arbi<br/>trary Reality — Schizophrenia and the Influ<br/>encing Machine<br/>Argument Two<br/>THE COLONIZATION<br/>OF EXPERIENCE<br/>VI Advertising: The Standard-Gauge<br/>Railway<br/>The Creation of "Value" — Redeveloping<br/>the Human Being — Commodity People —<br/>Breaking the Skin Barrier — The Inherent<br/>Need to Create Need — Buying Ourselves<br/>Back — The Delivery System's Delivery<br/>System<br/>vii The Centralization of Control<br/>Economic Growth and Patriotic Consumption<br/>— The Trickle-Down Theory — Benefici<br/>aries of the Advertising Fantasy — The Ef<br/>fect on Individuals — Flaws in the Fantasy<br/>— The Depression Never Ended — Domi<br/>nation of the Influencing Machine<br/>Argument Three<br/>EFFECTS OF TELEVISION<br/>ON THE HUMAN BEING<br/>viii Anecdotal Reports: Sick, Crazy,<br/>Mesmerized<br/>Invisible Phenomenon — Dimming Out the<br/>Human — Artificial Touch and Hyperactivity<br/>— Television Is Sensory Deprivation<br/>IX The Ingestion of Artificial Light<br/>Health and Light — Outdoors to Indoors —<br/>Seeking the Light — Serious Research<br/>X How Television Dims the Mind<br/>Hypnosis — Television Bypasses Conscious<br/>ness — Television Is Sleep Teaching —<br/>Television Is Not Relaxing<br/>XI How We Turn into Our Images<br/>Humans Are Image Factories — The Con<br/>crete Power of Images — Metaphysics to<br/>Physics — Image Emulation: Are We All<br/>Taped Replays? — Imitating Media<br/>XII The Replacement of Human<br/>Images by Television<br/>Suppression of Imagination — The Inherent<br/>Believability of All Images — All Television<br/>Is Real — Scientific Evidence — The<br/>Irresistibility of Images<br/>Argument Four<br/>THE INHERENT BIASES<br/>OF TELEVISION<br/>xni Information Loss<br/>Bias against the Excluded — Fuzzy Images:<br/>The Bias against Subtlety — The Bias away<br/>from the Sensory<br/>XIV Images Disconnected from Source<br/>The Elimination of "Aura" — The Bias<br/>toward Death — Separation from Time and<br/>Place — Condensation of Time: The Bias<br/>against Accuracy<br/>XV Artificial Unusualness<br/>Instinct to the Extraordinary — The Bias<br/>toward Technique as Replacement of Content<br/>— In Favor of "Alienated" Viewing — The<br/>Bias to Highlighted Content: Toward the Peaks,<br/>Away from the Troughs<br/>XVI The Pieces That Fall through<br/>THE Filter<br/>Thirty-three Miscellaneous Inherent Biases<br/>Postscript<br/>IMPOSSIBLE THOUGHTS<br/>XVII Television Taboo |
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| Keyword | Television broadcasting |
| General subdivision | Social aspects |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Television |
| General subdivision | Psychological aspects. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 301.161 MAN/F | P18450 | 14/07/2018 | 14/07/2018 | General Books |