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Introduction
1 A film released in 2004 that intermixes philosophy, mysticism, and science in
an exploration of the meaning of life. It was widely seen in the US as an
antithesis to Gibson’s more traditional or dogmatic work.
2 But not, as we will see, from the scholarly discourse, where a provocative and
fruitful set of directions, influenced by culturalism, have evolved.
3 These can be seen at http://www.paikstudios.com/ [accessed March 1, 2006]
4 Hoover, Stewart M. (1988) “Television myth and ritual: the role of substantive
meaning and spatiality,” in James W. Carey (ed.) Media, Myths and Narratives:
Television and the Press, Newbury Park: Sage, p. 176.
5 Hoover, Stewart M., Lynn Schofield Clark, and Diane F. Alters with Joseph G.
Champ and Lee Hood (2004) Media, Home, and Family, New York:
Routledge.

1 What this book could be about
1 Of course, there is ample evidence that the process was developed first in the
Far East centuries before.
2 Eisenstein, Elizabeth (1979) The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, New
York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 22–34. There were, of course, other
implications of the rise of printing including contemporaneous changes in
modes of religious knowledge and understanding. See, for example, Schneider
(2001).
3 And of course it faced an emerging threat to its authority in the form of a
movement – the Reformation – that profited from and embraced this new
media technology.
4 McLuhan was suggesting, on a micro-level, what had previously been claimed
for media on a macro-level by his fellow Canadian, Harold Innis – that the
structure of media of an age can be seen to have structured the religious sensi-
bilities of that age (Innis 1950). Successors to McLuhan in the “Toronto
School” have continued this line of thought (see, in particular, de Kerckhove
and Dewdney (1995). Other work on the perceptual characteristics of televi-
sion include: Reeves and Nass (1996) and Sturken and Cartwright (2001). For
a review of this in the context of psychological theories of the flow of everyday
life, see Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi (2002).
5 Ong (2002).
6 Jacques Ellul (1967) provides one of the most complex arguments to this effect,
lodged very much in modernity. See also Babin (1970).