Marshall McLuhan

Bibliography

Theses

• George Meredith as a Poet and Dramatic Parodist, University of Manitoba, [1934]. M.A. thesis. Unpublished.
• The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time, Cambridge, [1943]; ed. W. Terrence Gordon, Gingko Press, 2009, 292 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation. [1], Review

Monographs

• The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, New York: Vanguard Press, 1951; Gingko Press, 2002, 160 pp. [2]
• Counterblast, 1954; Gingko Press, 2011. Distributed in 1954 as a hand-made 'zine'. [3]
  • Counterblast, New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1970; Gingko Press, 2010.
  • Contraexplosión, trans. Isidoro Gelstein, 1971. (in Spanish)
• The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962, 300 pp.
• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, New York: McGraw Hill, 1964; MIT Press, 1994, 392 pp; ed. W. Terrence Gordon, Gingko Press, 2003, 640 pp. [4]
  • Die magischen Kanäle: Understanding Media, trans. Meinrad Amann, 1992. (in German)
  • Razumijevanje medija, trans. David Prpa, 2008. (in Croatian)
• Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, Something Else Press, 1967, 61 pp. Explorations issue 8 in book format.
• with Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Random House, 1967; Gingko Press, 2001, 160 pp; Gingko Press, 2011. Produced by Jerome Agel. [5]
• with Quentin Fiore, War and Peace in the Global Village: An Inventory of Some of the Current Spastic Situations That Could Be Eliminated By More Feedforward, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968; Gingko Press, 2001, 192 pp. Produced by Jerome Agel. [6]
• with Harley Parker, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting, New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
• Culture Is Our Business, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
• with Wilfred Watson, From Cliché to Archetype, New York: Viking, 1970. [7]
• with Barrington Nevitt, Take Today: The Executive as Drop Out, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
• with Kathryn Hutchon and Eric McLuhan, City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media, The Book Society of Canada Limited, 1977; repr. as Media, Messages and Language: The World as your Classroom, Skokie, Ill: National Textbook Co., 1980.
• with Eric McLuhan, Laws of Media: The New Science, University of Toronto Press, 1988, 252 pp.
• with Bruce Powers, The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 1988.
• with Eric McLuhan, Media and Formal Cause, Neopoiesis Press, 2011.
• with Eric McLuhan, Theories of Communication, Peter Lang, 2011.

Edited books

• Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1956.
• with Edmund Carpenter (eds.), Explorations in Communication: An Anthology, Boston: Beacon Press, 1960, 210 pp.
  • El aula sin muros investigaciones sobre técnicas de comunicación, trans. Luis Carandell, 1968; 2nd ed., 1974. (in Spanish)
• Voices of Literature, 2 Vols., Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada, 1964-65.
• with R. J. Schoeck (eds.), Voices of Literature, Book III: Sounds, Masks, Roles, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.

Collected Writings, Lectures and Interviews

• The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, ed. Eugene McNamara, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.
• Marshall McLuhan: The Man and his Message, eds. George Sanderson and Frank Macdonald, Fulcrum, 1989. Introduction by John Cage.
• The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion, eds. Eric McLuhan and Jacek Szklarek, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 1992; Toronto: Stoddart, 2002, 224 pp.
• Essential McLuhan, eds. Frank Zingrone and Eric McLuhan, New York: Basic Books, 1995.
• Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication: Essays by Marshall McLuhan, ed. M.A. Moos, Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1997.
• Understanding Me: Lectures & Interviews, eds. S. McLuhan and D. Staines, MIT Press, 2003.
• Marshall McLuhan Unbound, eds. Eric McLuhan and W. Terrence Gordon, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005, 412 pp. [8]
• with David Carson, The Book of Probes, eds. Eric McLuhan and William Kuhns, Gingko Press, 2011, 576 pp. Collection of aphorisms and excerpts. [9]

Selected Articles and Interviews

• "Culture and Technology", in Astronauts of Inner-Space: An International Collection of Avant-Garde Activity, ed. Jeff Berner, San Francisco: Stolen Paper Review, and London: The Times, 1966, pp 18-19.
• "The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualistic Society", in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962; repr. in The New Media Reader, eds. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT Press, 2003, pp 194-202
• "The Medium Is the Message", in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964; MIT Press, 1994; repr. in The New Media Reader, eds. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT Press, 2003, pp 203-209.
• "Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan - A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media", Playboy (March 1969); repr. in Essential McLuhan, New York: BasicBooks, 1995, pp. 233-269. [10]
• "McLuhan's Laws of the Media", Technology and Culture (January 1975), pp 74-78.

Correspondence

• Letters of Marshall McLuhan, eds. Matie Molinam, Corrine McLuhan, and William Toye, Oxford University Press, 1987, 562 pp.

Biographies

• P. Marchand, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger, a Biography, MIT Press, 1998.
• W. Terrence Gordon, Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding, A Biography, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003, 480 pp. [11]
• Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!, New York: Atlas & Co, 2010, 224 pp.

On McLuhan

• Tom Wolfe, "The New Life Out There", in The New Life Out There, The New York Herald Tribune, 1965; repr. in McLuhan: Hot & Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of & a Critical Symposium with a Rebuttal by McLuhan, New York: Dial Press, ed. Gerald Emanuel Stearn, 1967, pp 15-34.
• Gerald Emanuel Stearn (ed.), McLuhan: Hot & Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of & a Critical Symposium with a Rebuttal by McLuhan, New York: Dial Press, 1967.
• Arthur Kroker, Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant, Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1984.
• Forward through the Rear View Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan, eds. N. DeHart and Paul Benedetti, Prentice-Hall, 1996.
• Understanding Media, Voyager, 1996. CD-ROM.
• Paul Levinson, Digital McLuhan. A Guide to the Information Millennium, Routledge, 1999, 226 pp.

Journals

• McLuhan Studies, 6 issues, eds. Francesco Guardiani and Eric McLuhan, University of Toronto, c1996-99. (navigate through red squares)
• International Journal of McLuhan Studies, eds. Matteo Ciastellardi and Emanuela Patti, Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, since 2011.

Bibliographies

• At MarshallMcLuhan.com
• At U75102 Understanding Media

External links

• The Marshall McLuhan Estate
• Marshall McLuhan Speaks, a video collection, 2011.
• McLuhan at Gingko Press
• Marshall McLuhan Salon, the multimedia information centre of the Embassy of Canada in Berlin.
• Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute
• http://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/
• McLuhan at U75102 Understanding Media, an undergraduate module taught at Oxford Brookes University, UK.