Radio DramaRadio 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. |
Contents
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| 12 | |
The Six Ages of Audio Drama and the Internet Epoch | 21 |
From Sound Houses to the Phonograph Sound Play | 30 |
A Technological Timeline | 37 |
Radio Drama is Not a Blind Medium | 53 |
Sound Design Vocabulary | 70 |
Part III | 103 |
The Writing Agenda for Audio Drama | 151 |
Creating the Character and Effective Use of Characterisation | 183 |
Part V | 199 |
Making the Documentary Feature | 213 |
PartVI | 233 |
Managing the Production | 240 |
Experimental Direction and Performance | 246 |
Notes | 251 |
a crosscultural phenomenon | 115 |
Moving from Burlesque to Propaganda and News | 121 |
Spoonface Steinberg? | 136 |
constructing the Holocaust as a means | 144 |
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