Marshall McLuhan
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Works
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 Unpublished.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
Books
- The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, New York: Vanguard Press, 1951; Gingko Press, 2002, 160 pp; London: Duckworth Overlook, 2011. [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; 2011, 336 pp.
- La galassia Gutenberg. Nascita dell'uomo tipografico, trans. Stefano Rizzo, Rome: Armando, 1976. (in Italian)
- "Gutenbergova galaxie", in Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, Brno: Jota, 2000, pp 105-158. (in Czech)
- 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]
- Jak rozumět médiím: Extenze člověka, trans. Miloš Calda, Prague: Odeon, 1991, 352 pp. (in Czech)
- 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. Coordinated by Jerome Agel. [5]
- El medio es el masaje. Un inventario de efectos, Buenos Aires: Paidos, trans. León Mirlas, 1969. (in Spanish)
- 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. Coordinated 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.
- Città come aula. Per capire il linguaggio e i media, trans. A. Lorenzini, 1980. (in Italian)
- with Eric McLuhan, Laws of Media: The New Science, University of Toronto Press, 1988, 252 pp; 1992.
- with Bruce Powers, The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 1988.
- La aldea global. Transformaciones en la vida y los medios de comunicación mundiales en el siglo XXI, trans. Claudia Ferrari, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1993. (in Spanish)
- 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.
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. [8]
- "Marshall McLuhan versus Playboy aneb Upřímný rozhovor s veleknězem popkultur a metafyziky médií", in Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, Brno: Jota, 2000, pp 213-249. (in Czech)
- "McLuhan's Laws of the Media", Technology and Culture (January 1975), pp 74-78.
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.
- Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, trans. Irena Přibylová and Martin Krejza, Brno: Jota, 2000, 420 pp. (in Czech)
- 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. [9]
- with David Carson, The Book of Probes, eds. Eric McLuhan and William Kuhns, Gingko Press, 2011, 576 pp. Collection of aphorisms and excerpts. [10]
Bibliographies
Correspondence
- Letters of Marshall McLuhan, eds. Matie Molinam, Corrine McLuhan, and William Toye, Oxford University Press, 1987, 562 pp.
Literature
Monographs
- 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.
- G. Gamaleri, La galassia McLuhan. Il mondo plasmato dai media?, 1976. (in Italian)
- Daniel J. Czitrom, Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan, University of North Carolina Press, 1982, 254 pp. Review.
- Arthur Kroker, Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant, Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1984.
- Graeme Patterson, History and Communication: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, The Interpretation of History, University of Toronto Press, 1990, 251 pp. [11]
- Gary Wolf, "Channeling McLuhan: The Wired Interview with the magazine's patron saint", Wired 4.01 (Jan 1996).
- 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.
- Glenn Willmott, McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse, University of Toronto Press, 1996, 262 pp. [12]
- Paul Levinson, Digital McLuhan. A Guide to the Information Millennium, Routledge, 1999, 226 pp.
- Richard Cavell, McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography, University of Toronto Press, 2002, 360 pp. [13]
- Janine Marchessault, Marshall McLuhan, Sage, 2004.
- W. Terrence Gordon, McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum, 2010.
- Jose Antonio Domingues, O paradigma mediologico - Debray depois de Mcluhan, LabCom, 2010. (in Portuguese)
- Elena Lamberti, Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies, University of Toronto Press, 2012, 320 pp. [14]
- B.W. Powe, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy, University of Toronto Press, 2014, 368 pp. [15]
- Biographies
- Philip Marchand, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989, 320 pp; MIT Press, 1998.
- W. Terrence Gordon, Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding, A Biography, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003, 480 pp. [16]
- Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!, New York: Atlas & Co, 2010, 224 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.
Documentaries
- Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan, dir. Carl Bessai, 45 min, 1999. TV documentary.
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.