* Neil Postman, ( 1931 – 2003 ) author, media theorist and cultural critic,

* 1931 – Neil Postman, American cultural critic ( d. 2003 )

* March 8 – Neil Postman, American media theorist and cultural critic

Language considerations figure prominently in general semantics, and three language and communications specialists who embraced general semantics, university professors and authors Hayakawa, Wendell Johnson and Neil Postman, played major roles in framing general semantics, especially for non-readers of Science and Sanity.

Neil Postman, founder of New York University's media ecology program in 1971, edited ETC.

* Crazy talk, stupid talk: how we defeat ourselves by the way we talk and what to do about it by Neil Postman, Delacorte Press, 1976.

* Postman, Neil.

According to The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman, the Christian Church of the Middle Ages considered the age of accountability, when a person could be tried and even executed as an adult, to be age 7.

In his book Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk, Neil Postman states that " the key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming ....( some beliefs are ) fanatical not because they are ' false ', but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false.

Neil Postman acknowledges the influence of People in Quandaries in his own excellent general semantics book Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk ( 1976, Delacorte, New York ):

In his collection of essays Technopoly Neil Postman demonstrates the argument against the use of writing through an excerpt from Plato's work Phaedrus ( Postman, Neil ( 1992 ) Technopoly, Vintage, New York, pp 73 ).

In this story, Theuth presents his new invention " writing " to King Thamus, telling Thamus that his new invention " will improve both the wisdom and memory of the Egyptians " ( Postman, Neil ( 1992 ) Technopoly, Vintage, New York, pp 74 ).

He argues that the written word will infect the Egyptian people with fake knowledge as they will be able to attain facts and stories from an external source and will no longer be forced to mentally retain large quantities of knowledge themselves ( Postman, Neil ( 1992 ) Technopoly, Vintage, New York, pp 74 ).

The term media ecology was first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968, while the concept of the theory was proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964.

Inspired by McLuhan, Neil Postman founded the Program in Media Ecology at New York University in 1971.

According to Neil Postman, Media ecology is concerned with understanding how technologies and techniques of communication control the form, quantity, speed, distribution, and direction of information ; and how, in turn, such informational configurations or biases affect people's perceptions, values, and attitudes.

Neil Postman ( March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003 ) was an American author, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death.

Social critic Neil Postman has veered away from media and has shifted the focus back onto education.

* The Neil Postman Information Page

* Neil Postman: Collected Online Articles

* Neil Postman Writing on the Web

* Neil Postman, Defender of The Word by Lance Strate

The method was advocated by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner in their book Teaching as a Subversive Activity.

They write that certain characteristics are common to all good learners ( Postman and Weingartner, 31 – 33 ), saying that all good learners have:

Postman and Weingartner suggest that inquiry teachers have the following characteristics ( pp. 34 – 37 ):

As an education theorist and writer, Postman is closely associated with other critics and commentators including John Holt, Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, George Dennison, Jonathan Kozol, Herbert Kohl, James Herndon, Charles E. Silberman, John Taylor Gatto, and others.

Kohl's writing had significant influence on other education writers and theorists including John Holt, Jonathan Kozol, Richard Farson, Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, George Dennison, James Herndon, Charles E. Silberman, John Taylor Gatto, Neil Postman and others.

In 1969 and 1970 Postman collaborated with New Rochelle educator < span class =" plainlinks "> Alan Shapiro </ span > on the development of a model school based on the principles expressed in Teaching as a Subversive Activity.

( 1969 ) and The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1981 ).

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

A slew of now-renowned noir " bad girls " would follow, such as those played by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers ( 1946 ), and Jane Greer in Out of the Past ( 1947 ).

Titles included in this library are S. O. B., the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( WB also owns the 1946 MGM version through Turner ), The Sea Wolves, and Escape to Victory ( a. k. a. Victory ).

With Gianni Puccini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Giuseppe De Santis, he wrote the screenplay for his first film as director: Ossessione ( Obsession, 1943 ), the first neorealist movie and an unofficial adaptation of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Although no crime is committed anywhere in the book, the novel was reprinted in 1989 by Random House, alongside Cain's thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1934 ), under the heading " Vintage Crime ".

* Allan Smethurst ( 1927 – 2000 ), aka " The Singing Postman ", raised in Sheringham although he may have been born in Lancashire

The science fiction-post-apocalyptic epics Waterworld ( 1995 ) and The Postman ( 1997 ), the latter of which Costner also directed, were both commercial disappointments and both largely regarded by critics as artistic failures.

The Postman ( 1985 ), is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by David Brin.

In Britain, Motown's records were released on various labels: at first London ( only the Miracles ' " Shop Around "/" Who's Lovin ' You " and " Ain't It Baby "), then Fontana (" Please Mr. Postman " by the Marvelettes was one of four ), Oriole American (" Fingertips " by Little Stevie Wonder was one of many ), EMI's Stateside (" Where Did Our Love Go " by the Supremes and " My Guy " by Mary Wells were Motown's first British top-20 hits ), and finally EMI's Tamla-Motown (" Stop!

After the war, Turner's career continued successfully with the release, The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), which co-starred John Garfield.

Examples include Brigid O ' Shaughnessy, portrayed by Mary Astor, who murders Sam Spade's partner in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ); Gene Tierney as Ellen Brent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ), and the cabaret singer portrayed by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), narcissistic wives who manipulate their husbands ; Phyllis Dietrichson ( Barbara Stanwyck ) in Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers and Cora ( Lana Turner ) in The Postman Always Rings Twice, both based on novels by James M. Cain, manipulate men into killing their husbands.

* The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), an American film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield, probably the best known of the film adaptations

* The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1981 ), an American remake based on a screenplay by David Mamet, directed by Bob Rafelson, and featuring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange

* The Postman Always Rings Twice ( opera ), a 1982 opera with a libretto adapted from the novel by Colin Graham and music by Stephen Paulus

Fulci's version is as follows: " One day I told Dardano the plot of my Evil Comes Back ( later retitled Per Sempre / Until Death ), a sequel on a fantastic note to The Postman Always Rings Twice, and he proposed it to several producers with my name on it as the director.