Marshall McLuhan
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Biography: Marshall McLuhan was born on July 21, 1911 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as Herbert Marshall McLuhan. He was an actor and writer, known for Annie Hall (1977), Intercut (1980) and The Third Walker (1978). He was married to Corinne Lewis. He died on December 31, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Edmonton, Canada
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Birthday: July 21, 1911
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Male
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Annie Hall
Overview: New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
Overview: Investigates the central ideas of Marshall McLuhan using pictorial techniques and including his own comments. Examines the reaction of others to his views and points out that his interest is the impact of electronic technology on the contemporary world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-19
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Suite 212
Overview: Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a fragmented tour of the city. Paik critiques the selling of New York by multinational corporations and the city's role as the master of the media and information industries; Collaborators Yalkut, Davis and Kubota contribute their own vibrant and punchy segments.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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The Child of the Future: How Might He Learn?
Overview: Education is increasingly affected by technological advance. How the changes affect the child are shown in this far-ranging study of what is new in educational theory and practice. Appearing in the film are several leading educators and innovators, including Dr. Jerome Bruner of Harvard University and host-narrator Dr. Marshall McLuhan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Living in a Global Village
Overview: A group of visionaries and students return to the abandoned Milan Expo, to reimagine the site as a global village.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan
Overview: "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media with which people communicate than by the content of the communication." - Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan, one of Canada's most influential and controversial figures, burst into the center of media circles in North America with his strange and prophetic pronouncements - "electric light is pure information" - on advertising, television, and the emerging computer age. "Out Of Orbit" also pays tribute to McLuhan, his message, and the way in which his theories and words have penetrated and influenced the consciousness of today's media-literate society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-30
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Twist
Overview: Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with engaging interviews, this groovy documentary chronicles the evolution of the titular postwar rock ’n' roll dance craze that took America by storm. Featuring singers and musicians who helped define the phenomenon like Hank Ballard, Chubby Checker, and Joey Dee, as well as clips from TV shows like “American Bandstand,” TWIST tells the overlooked story of how shaking your hips went from being a sign of social degeneracy to the dance form that rocked the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Beatles '64
Overview: Featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendance, follow McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Starr as they land in New York City in February 1964 and solidify their status as the biggest band in the world.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-28
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Buñuel in Hollywood
Overview: This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Aragonese filmmaker stays in the U.S., the characters he met, the films he made and he could never do. The program also includes new material-unpublished until 2012 - the Aragonese director filmed in the U.S. in the early 1940s and where he can be seen playing one of their children or enjoying a short holiday in a cottage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-22
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Euclidean Man
Overview: In Euclidean Man, Marshall McLuhan’s monotone voice unlocks a world in which man moves through the electronic age and where technological advances provide a new step in human evolution. This cyber collage of sound and image fragments hypnotises the viewer with its rhythmic cutting and pasting.
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Original Language: en
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Digital Tsunami: Big Tech, Big AI, Big Brother
Overview: We are engulfed in a digital tsunami—a toxic mix of artificial intelligence, state and corporate surveillance, and social media addiction controlled by powerful algorithms. Digital Tsunami shows how these are all elements of a digital ecosystem that is changing us as humans—just as the prophetic media guru Marshall McLuhan predicted 60 years ago. The unexpected consequences of this digital revolution have created an urgent need for strategies for survival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-29
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