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Online Material About and By Edmund Carpenter
A Collection of Online Material About and By Edmund Carpenter
The purpose of this collection is to provide visitors to newexplorations.ca with access to online material about and by Edmund Carpenter, the co-editor of the original journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication.
Edmund Carpenter Wikipedia
The Wikipedia article highlights the life and work of Edmund Carpenter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Snow_Carpenter
Edmund Carpenter Biography
A short biography highlighting the life and work of Ted Carpenter.
Edmund Carpenter Biography by Ellen Harold for the Cultural Equity Association
This biography of Edmund Carpenter describes the work of Ted Carpenter and his association with Marshall McLuhan.
http://www.culturalequity.org/alan-lomax/friends/carpenter
Edmund Carpenter
Edmund Carpenter: A Tricksterās Explorations of Culture and Media by Harald E. L. Prins & John Bishop
An extensive biography of Carpenter by two of his research colleagues. This was a chapter in the book Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film edited by Beate Engelbrecht (2007; Bern, Berlin, Oxford: Peter Lang Publishers) appearing on pages 207-246.
Edmund Carpenter Explorations in Media & Anthropology
This essay appeared in the Visual Anthropology Review Volume 17 Number 2 Fall-Winter 2001-2002. It describes the work of Ted Carpenter and includes 14 images some showing him working on his ethnography research in the field.
https://www.media-generation.net/Articles/VAR.pdf
Edmund Carpenter (Became What He Beheld)
A 2007 essay by Marshall Soules
This essay recounts the adventures of Ted Carpenter with Marshall McLuhan
https://www.media-studies.ca/articles/carpentr.htm
Books by Edmund Carpenter
An informal bibliography of 22 books authored by Ted Carpenter
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/294464.Edmund_Carpenter
The New Languages
An essay by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan that appeared in the Chicago Review 10 (1), 46-52.
There is no abstract for the article but the opening lines are as follows:
English is a mass medium. All languages are mass media. The new mass media-film, radio, television-are new languages, their grammars as yet unknown. Each codifies reality differently; each conceals a unique metaphysics.