Marshall McLuhan (The Sixties in America)
Early Life
The young Herbert Marshall McLuhan was fascinated by technology, but at the University of Manitoba, he discovered literary studies and did graduate work at Cambridge, receiving a doctorate in 1943. In 1946, McLuhan joined the faculty at the University of Toronto and, by 1959, had founded the interdisciplinary journal Explorations and published The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man (1951), a study of print advertising.
The 1960’s
McLuhan’s emergence as an authority on media and culture occurred through several channels...
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