Marshall McLuhan

Person · Open Library

Born

1911

Died

1980

Works

107

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Film & TV

Acting · Edmonton, Canada

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.

Known for

• Euclidean Man — [Archival footage]2025
• Digital Tsunami: Big Tech, Big AI, Big Brother — Himself2025
• Beatles '64 — Self (archive footage)2024
• Living in a Global Village — Himself (archive footage)2018
• Buñuel in Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2000
• Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan — Himself1999
• Twist — Himself1992
• Annie Hall — Marshall McLuhan1977
• Suite 212 — Self (Archive footage)1974
• This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage — Himself1967

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Canada

Active from

1911

Active to

1980

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,086

Total plays

8,752

Marshall McLuhan CC (born Herbert Marshall McLuhan July 21, 1911, died December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar. A professor of English literature, a literary critic, and communications theorist, McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media ecology. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". Perhaps the most celebrated English teacher of the twentieth century <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marshall+McLuhan">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

   · 1953 · cited 29,958x

2. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 23,645x

3. Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

   · 1984 · cited 21,450x

4. International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity

   · 2003 · cited 17,592x

5. Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools

   · 2021 · cited 15,689x

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Quotes

• “America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy — the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA.”
• “Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.”
• “There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.”
• “Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.”
• “Human perception is literally incarnation.”
• “Nobody can doubt that the entire range of applied science contributes to the very format of a newspaper. But the headline is a feature which began with the Napoleonic Wars. The headline is a primitive shout of rage, triumph, fear, or warning, and newspapers have thrived on wars ever since.”

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Official website

Link to the official site · 4,738 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

Canada

Place of birth

Edmonton

Place of death

Toronto

Child

Eric McLuhan

Occupation

futurist

Employer

Saint Louis University

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

Catholicism

Academic degree

doctorate

Doctoral student

Walter J. Ong

Field of work

media studies

Official website

marshallmcluhan.com

Image

Marshall McLuhan.jpg

Number of children

6

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