Radio drama : theory and practice / Tim Crook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crook, Tim, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio plays--History and criticism.

Radio plays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drama, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; A New Media History Perspective through Audio Drama; Radio Drama as Modernity; The Electrophone or Thetrophone: broadcasting audio drama before the radio; The Six Ages of Audio Drama and the Internet Epoch; From Sound Houses to the Phonograph Sound Play; A Technological Time-line; A Culturalist Approach to Internet Audio Drama; Radio Drama is Not a Blind Medium; Sound Design Vocabulary; The Cinematic and Musical Inspiration; Blurring Fiction with Reality; Radio Drama Panics: a cross-cultural phenomenon

Moving from Burlesque to Propaganda and NewsThe War of the Worlds Effect: Spoonface Steinberg?; Spoonface Steinberg: constructing the Holocaust as a means of identification; The Writing Agenda for Audio Drama; Creating the Character and Effective Use of Characterisation; Writing Dialogue; The Phantom Distinction; Making the Documentary Feature; Directorial Responsibility; Managing the Production; Experimental Direction and Performance; Notes; Audio d

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-287) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-60693-1

0-203-19074-2

1-134-60694-X

1-280-40060-9

0-203-00627-5

9780203006276

OCLC:

264522980