The children who learned to read and write after TV, are a much more profound group, much more serious…. The TV generation of youngsters is grim, they're not light hearted, they're not playful, they're not detached, they have none of the fantasy of the old movie world or the old book world about them, they're deeply involved, they take everything very seriously. And well, including a lot of things that would be better to be handled more playfully…
“Joyce and Film” lecture delivered at Fordham U. in 1968, passage drawn from the transcript
Year: 1968
Chapter:
Youth
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan