At 12:35 PM 5/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
>(This account might explain why ideological criticism in film studies so
often is
>at pains to show why one form of film is favorable to another, rather than
argue
>along Marshall McLuhan's lines, according to which the medium is what is
socially
>threatening, 'is the message', which I think would at least be worth
considering
>in that context.)
>
While McLuhan argues that "the medium is the message", he generally sees
this as a *good* thing in this (our) era of globalized, easily accessible
image-based media, no?
Jeff
Jeffrey T. Dean
Department of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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