Radio Drama: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Tim Crook

• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
A New Media History Perspective through Audio Drama......Page 16
Radio Drama as Modernity......Page 25
The Electrophone or Thetrophone: broadcasting audio drama before the radio......Page 28
The Six Ages of Audio Drama and the Internet Epoch......Page 34
From Sound Houses to the Phonograph Sound Play......Page 43
A Technological Time-line......Page 50
A Culturalist Approach to Internet Audio Drama......Page 54
Radio Drama is Not a Blind Medium......Page 66
Sound Design Vocabulary......Page 83
The Cinematic and Musical Inspiration......Page 103
Blurring Fiction with Reality......Page 118
Radio Drama Panics: a cross-cultural phenomenon......Page 128
Moving from Burlesque to Propaganda and News......Page 134
The War of the Worlds Effect: Spoonface Steinberg?......Page 149
Spoonface Steinberg: constructing the Holocaust as a means of identification......Page 157
The Writing Agenda for Audio Drama......Page 164
Creating the Character and Effective Use of Characterisation......Page 196
Writing Dialogue......Page 201
The Phantom Distinction......Page 214
Making the Documentary Feature......Page 226
Directorial Responsibility......Page 248
Managing the Production......Page 253
Experimental Direction and Performance......Page 259
Notes......Page 264
Audio drama bibliography......Page 282
Index......Page 301