Theater of the mind :imagination, aesthetics, and American radio drama
- 作者: Verma, Neil.
- 出版:
- 稽核項: x, 293 pages :illustrations, maps ;24 cm.
- 標題: History and criticism , Radio plays, American History and criticism -- 20th century. , Radio broadcasting United States -- History -- 20th century. , Radio broadcasting , Radio plays, American , History
- ISBN: 0226853519 , 9780226853512
- 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界 Includes bibliographical references and index. What is the "theater of the mind"? -- Radio aesthetics in the late depression, 1937-1945 -- Dramas of space and time -- Producing perspective in radio -- Intimate and kaleidosonic styles -- Norman Corwin's people's radio -- Communication and interiority in 1940s radio, 1941-1950 -- Honeymoon shocker -- Dramas of susceptibility and transmission -- Eavesdropper, ventriloquist, signalman -- Radio and the postwar mood, 1945-1955 -- Later than you think? -- Just the facts -- In trials -- Coda: instruction and excavation -- Guide to radio programs.
- 系統號: 005262334
- 資料類型: 圖書
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For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.
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