- Category Type: Study Guides
- ISBN: 9780415216036
- Number of Pages: 320
- Publication Year: 1999
- Product weight: 0.50 kg
- Book Origin: United Kingdom
Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drama, such a s directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory. From the early audio broadcasts of 1914 and the development of General Electric's New York WGY station in 1922, through Orson Welles' startling Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938, to more recent radio spoofs and the subversive challenge from 'media guerillas', Tim Crook explores the history and contemporary practice of radio drama. 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 analyzing 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 sync the first 'audio phonic production' and evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins and immediate access to programmes on the Internet.
- Category Type: Study Guides
- Author: Tim Crook
- ISBN: 9780415216036
- Binding: Paperback
- Book Language: English
- Publisher: Routledge
- Number of Pages: 320 pages
- Dimensions: 23.42 x 15.75 x 1.8 cm
- Publication Year: 1999
- Product Weight: 0.50 kg
- Book Origin: United Kingdom