The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
- ISBN-10
- 0710028725
- ISBN-13
- 9780710028723
- Pages
- 157
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1967
- Publisher
- Routledge & K. Paul
- Author
- Marshall McLuhan
Description
This book details how sex was first used to sell industrial hardware, how Orphan Annie still keeps the world on track, and how an Arabian Nights wonderland of mass entertainment and suggestion makes information irrelevant, and sends us to bed at night too dazed to question whether we're happy or not. We live in an age in which legions of highly ed
