The Radio Drama Handbook
Author : Richard J. Hand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441187421
Radio Drama
Author : Martin Grams, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2008-02-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786438716
Book Description
The free-standing radios of the middle decades of the 20th century were invitingly rotund and proudly displayed--nothing like today's skinny televisions hidden inside "entertainment centers." Radios were the hub of the family's after-dinner activities, and children and adults gorged themselves on western-adventure series like "The Lone Ranger," police dramas such as "Calling All Cars," and the varied offerings of "The Cavalcade of America." Shows often aired two or three times a week, and many programs were broadcast for more than a decade, comprising hundreds of episodes. This book includes more than 300 program logs (many appearing in print for the first time) drawn from newspapers, script files in broadcast museums, records from NBC, ABC and CBS, and the personal records of series directors. Each entry contains a short broadcast history that includes directors, writers, and actors, and the broadcast dates and airtimes. A comprehensive index rounds out the work.
So You Want to Write Radio Drama?
Author : Claire Grove
Publisher : So You Want To Be...? career guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Radio
ISBN : 9781848422834
Book Description
An essential guide for anyone who dreams of penning tomorrow's radio classics.
Theater of the Mind
Author : Neil Verma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0226853527
Book Description
For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.
Audionarratology
Author : Lars Bernaerts
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Narration (Rhetoric)
ISBN : 9780814214725
Book Description
Radio drama has been around for more than one hundred years and is still vibrant in many countries. A narrative-dramatic genre and art form in its own right, radio drama has traditionally crossed medial and generic boundaries and continues to do so in our age of digitization. Audionarratology: Lessons from Audio Drama, edited by Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, explores radio drama from a narratological angle. The contributions cover key questions surrounding audiophonic meaning-making, storyworld creation, mediation, focalization, suspense, unreliability, and ambiguity as well as the relationship between script and performance, seriality, antinarrative tendencies, and radio drama's political implications now and in its early days. The book thus explores the interplay between sound, voices, music, language, silence, electroacoustic manipulation, and narrative structures. Providing examples from American, Australian, British, Dutch, and German radio drama--such as I Love a Mystery, The War of the Worlds, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--this book has important insights for scholars working in transmedial narratology, media studies, literary and cultural studies, theatre and performance studies, and communication studies as well as for practitioners and lovers of radio drama alike.
At Home in Mitford
Author : Jan Karon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143114018
Book Description
Now available in large print—the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon’s beloved series set in America’s favorite small town: Mitford. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he bargained for. And readers get a rich comedy about ordinary people and their ordinary lives.
Radio Drama
Author : Tim Crook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134606931
Book Description
Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory. Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction and reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts and analysing radio broadcasts from America, Britain, Canada and Australia, the book explores the practicalities of producing drama for radio. Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has developed since the first 'audiophonic production' and evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins and immedate access to programmes on the Internet.
The Way to Write Radio Drama
Author : William Ash
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Book Description
Steal the Stars
Author : Nat Cassidy
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250172624
Book Description
Steal the Stars, a debut novel by Nat Cassidy, is based on the science fiction podcast from Tor Labs, written by Mac Rogers. Dakota “Dak” Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world. They call it “Moss.” It’s your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. It still sits at the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed eleven years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth. The day Matt Salem joins her security team, Dak’s whole world changes. It’s love at first sight—which is a problem, since they both signed ironclad contracts vowing not to fraternize with other military personnel. If they run, they’ll be hunted for what they know. Dak and Matt have only way to be together: do the impossible. Steal Moss and sell the secret of its existence. And they can’t afford a single mistake.
Writing and Producing Radio Dramas
Author : Esta de Fossard
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0761933263
Book Description
Throughout the world, the media is used in various ways to promote social awareness and initiate social development. Of all the available means of communication, radio is still the one with the maximum reach in most developing countries. This book, the first in a three-book series titled Communication for Behavior Change, offers extremely practical guidance on how to design, write, and produce radio dramas aimed at motivating social change. Written by a leading teacher and practitioner of EntertainmentEducation, it is the only available book which provides complete and hands-on instructions for creating successful radio serial dramas for behavior change. The text is interspersed with examples which show how entertainment and education have been woven together to create awareness programs that are both popular and effective. Extracts from several successful scripts from many countries are also provided to demonstrate what has previously clicked with the audience.
