Acoustic McLuhan

I recently posted a clip of an interview with Marshall McLuhan in which he explained his conversion to Catholicism (link). The clip came from an interview with Nina Sutton in 1975, which the Library and Archives of Canada have put out on the web (link). Unfortunately, they have the interview available only as Windows Media files, so here is a link to the rest of the clips you can find on their website:


Interview with Nina Sutton


The topics include:
+The relationship between "the medium is the message" and the figure/ground concept,
+The influence of New Criticism on McLuhan media studies,
+The relationship of poetry and media,
+The Press,
+Visual and Acoustic Space.


Be sure to check it out, there are some rare gems here!

The Education of Mike McManus

The following is a clip of an interview with Marshall McLuhan which aired on TVOntario in 1977. The description:

Mike McManus talks to Marshall McLuhan, the internationally-known critic of the media. McLuhan discusses modern regionalism and separatism, nostalgia, violence and identity, television as an addictive tranquilizer, propaganda, and his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic.

While all of that sounds fascinating, the clip is only three minutes and doesn't capture the whole interview. TVOntario won't let me access the interview on their site, because I'm in the US, but I'd love to get my hands on the whole thing--especially the part about his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic.

Here is a link to the full length video, if you are in a place where you can watch it:

http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?videoid?76058196001