Editing Marshall McLuhan (section)

===Popular culture===
[[Woody Allen]]'s Oscar-winning ''[[Annie Hall]]'' (1977) featured McLuhan in a [[Cameo appearance|cameo]] as himself. In the film, a pompous academic is arguing with Allen in a cinema queue when McLuhan suddenly appears and silences him, saying, "You know nothing of my work."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carr |first1=David |title=Marshall McLuhan: Media Savant |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/books/review/Carr-t.html |work=The New York Times |date=6 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729200057/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/books/review/Carr-t.html |archive-date=29 July 2023}}</ref>

The character "Brian O'Blivion" in [[David Cronenberg]]'s 1983 film ''[[Videodrome]]'' is a "media oracle" based on McLuhan.{{sfn|Lamberti|2012|pp=241–243}}

In 1991, McLuhan was named the "patron saint" of ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine and a quote of his appeared on the masthead{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} for the first ten years of its publication.<ref name="wired channel" />

McLuhan's perspective on the cycle of cultural identity inspired [[Duke Ellington]]'s album ''[[The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=David Brent |date=2013 |title="Duke Ellington: Highlights Of His Twilight" |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2013/05/23/186303823/duke-ellington-highlights-of-his-twilight |website=[[NPR Music]]}}</ref>

He is mentioned by name in a [[Peter Gabriel]]–penned lyric in the song "Broadway Melody of 1974", on [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]'s [[concept album]] ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]'': "Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', head buried in the sand."

McLuhan is jokingly referred to in an episode of ''[[The Sopranos]]'' titled "[[House Arrest (The Sopranos episode)|House Arrest]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yacowar |first=Maurice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vQxFWbD3aoC&dq=%22the+sopranos%22+%22marshall+mcluhan%22&pg=PA113 |title=The Sopranos on the Couch: Analyzing Television's Greatest Series |date=2003-01-01 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-1542-4 |pages=113 |language=en}}</ref>

Despite his death in 1980, someone claiming to be McLuhan posted on a ''Wired'' mailing list in 1996. The information this person provided convinced one ''Wired'' writer that "if the poster was not McLuhan himself, it was a bot programmed with an eerie command of McLuhan's life and inimitable perspective."<ref name="wired channel">{{cite magazine |last=Wolf |first=Gary |author-link=Gary Wolf (journalist) |date=January 1996 |title=Channeling McLuhan |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/channeling.html |magazine=Wired |volume=4 |issue=1 |access-date=May 10, 2009}}</ref>

McLuhan is the subject of the 1993 play ''The Medium'', the first major work by the [[Saratoga International Theater Institute]] and director [[Anne Bogart]]. The play was revived by SITI Company for a farewell tour in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|title=BAMbill: 'The Medium'|url=http://bambill.org/the-medium|website=Brooklyn Academy of Music|access-date=25 March 2022|archive-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925120621/http://bambill.org/the-medium|url-status=live}}</ref>