A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The comic book for example has been seen as a degenerate literary form instead of as a nascent pictorial and dramatic form which has sprung from the new stress on visual-auditory communication in the magazines, the radio and television. The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
Letter to Harold Adams Innis, March 14, 1951, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 222
Year: 1951
↪ Also at #2525
Compiled by William Kuhns
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