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Cultural-Studies

1951

Raroia: Happy Island of the South Seas


Bengt Danielsson - 1951
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The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man


Marshall McLuhan - 1951
    It shows 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 educated professionals dedicate themselves to the task of getting inside the collective public mind with the object of manipulating, exploiting and controlling.

Matthew Arnold: With an Additional Essay Matthew Arnold, Poet


Lionel Trilling - 1951
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