We all live in Marshall McLuhan's wake. Fascinated by the role technology played in transforming our lives, one of the twentieth century's most famous intellectuals realized, with stunning accuracy, the impact the digital age would have on our social, spiritual, economic and ideological selves. "The global village" and "the medium is the message" are among the most quoted phrases of our time. Few people grasped the enormity of his ideas, however, and over the course of the following decades his work was largely ignored by academics and the public. Now, over twenty years after his death, in the midst of an era of Internet, virtual and wired technologies, McLuhan's Wake explores the enduring hold of McLuhan's message. Grounded in McLuhan's last scholarly work, The Laws of Media, the film translates these laws into an illuminating and revealing text, haunted by archival footage and the voice of McLuhan himself. Blending all forms of media, including animation and special effects, McLuhan's Wake is a visually dazzling and poetic film, with narration by renowned performance artist Laurie Anderson, and commentary by scholars Eric McLuhan, Neil Postman, Lewis Lapham and journalist Patrick Watson.

Further Information:

• Over 100 minutes of extras!
• Interactive Tetrads - exploring technology via McLuhan's Laws of Media.
  
• The Descent into the Maelstrom - Bonus short animated film of Edgar Allan Poe's story.
  
• Exclusive video interview with Corrine McLuhan.
  
• Exclusive audio interviews with Eric McLuhan, Neil Postman, Lewis Lapham, Edmund Carpenter, Gerald O'Grady, Philip Marchand, Frank Zingrone and Patricia Bruckmann.
  
• More than an hour of vintage McLuhan audio clips.
  
• Gallery featuring photographs of McLuhan and some of his mind-bending aphorisms.
  
• Original music soundtrack composed by Kurt Swinghammer.
  
• Hundreds of pages of printable text, including a McLuhan dossier, director's notes and original shooting script.
  
• Study guide for McLuhan's Wake.