ABSTRACT
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
part I|49 pages
Practise meets theory
chapter Chapter 1|9 pages
A new media history perspective through audio drama
chapter Chapter 2|3 pages
Radio drama as modernity
chapter Chapter 4|9 pages
The six ages of audio drama and the Internet epoch
chapter Chapter 5|7 pages
From sound houses to the phonograph sound play
chapter Chapter 6|4 pages
A technological time-line
chapter Chapter 7|9 pages
A culturalist approach to Internet audio drama
part II|50 pages
Sound theory and practice
chapter Chapter 8|17 pages
Radio drama is not a blind medium
chapter Chapter 9|20 pages
Sound design vocabulary
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
The cinematic and musical inspiration
part III|45 pages
The new radio drama form
chapter Chapter 11|10 pages
Blurring fiction with reality
chapter Chapter 13|15 pages
Moving from burlesque to propaganda and news
chapter Chapter 15|5 pages
Spoonface Steinberg
part IV|48 pages
The theory and practice of writing audio drama
chapter Chapter 16|32 pages
The writing agenda for audio drama
chapter Chapter 17|5 pages
Creating the character and effective use of characterisation
chapter Chapter 18|10 pages
Writing dialogue
part V|33 pages
Constructing the radio drama/documentary feature
chapter Chapter 19|12 pages
The phantom distinction
chapter Chapter 20|19 pages
Making the documentary feature
part VI|18 pages
The practice and theory of directing and performance