c/marshall-mcluhan
Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…Expo in Montreal has been a great success for the simple reason that pulled the storyline off the whole show. Like a Fellini movie, no storyline. The storyline hots it up and leaves the spectator outside looking on helplessly without involvement. Expo is a…
…Expo in Montreal has been a great success for the simple reason that pulled the storyline off the whole show. like a Fellini movie, no storyline. The storyline hots it up and leaves the spectator outside looking on helplessly without involvement. Expo is a…
…preconditioned mass viewing audiences to abrupt film cutting with no storylines. Many of the techniques utilized in modern theatrical films. Fellini and Bergman and such pull the storyline off the film, and the result is that you become much more profoundly…
…off any situation and you get a much higher level of creative participation on the part of the reader or the audience. And the Fellini Eight and a Half is a world where the audience has to work very hard, same as abstract art, same as Picasso. Picasso…
…environment. I think this is expressed partly in all these new jokes that are popping up. The new movies of Bergman, Fellini, and others. No storyline. Just an environment. The subconscious as an external environment is a new development in human affairs,…
…Expo in Montreal has been a great success for the simple reason that pulled the storyline off the whole show. Like a Fellini movie, no storyline. A storyline hots it up and leaves the spectator outside looking on helplessly without involvement. Expo is a…
…dropping down of visual level, the need for plot and the desire for plot also drops down. And you'll find very little of it in Fellini or Bergman or the Zhivago type of film. But to stay for a moment with the visual world as it came to us and…
…Now, one of the strange effects that TV has had on the movie has been to deprive it of its storyline. The Fellini world. Stripping off storyline is a normal result of speed-up electric technology. The newspaper lost its storyline when it got telegraphic…
…same way, TV has stripped the storyline off the novel. The thing novel, the romance shows, has come in along with the Fellini or Van Der Beek movie. The movie without a storyline is a movie more subtly responsive to modulations of complex environments and…