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This book presents a phenomenological model for understanding radio drama and uses it to analyse the practice of radio dramaturgy in the UK. It argues that the central role of the body in the act ...
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This study provides an in-depth exploration of the dramaturgical practices of radio drama and their underlying philosophical assumptions. By presenting an analytical model drawn from phenomenology, it challenges the current understanding of the medium, instead focusing on the bodily and aural aspects of radio drama, while offering a critique of the conventions of dramaturgical practice for neglecting these affective sonic aspects. Tracing these conventions through the history of the development of radio drama, it proposes that a more bodily, resonant mode of radio dramaturgy is best placed to meet the demands of the current era of digital production and distribution. The book also examines a number of approaches to creating a more embodied experience for the listener.
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Price: £85.00
Pages: 248
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 15 December 2020
ISBN: 9781526149817
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / History & Criticism, Radio / podcasts, PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Media studies: journalism, Theatre: technical and background skills

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Farokh Soltani is Lecturer in Writing for Broadcast Media and Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

Introduction: the problem of radio drama
1 Radio thinks, radio sees: the theatre of the mind and beyond
2 Radio listens: a phenomenological model of radio drama
3 How does radio listen? The semantic paradigm of British radio dramaturgy and its problems
4 Radio learns to listen: a genealogy of the semantic paradigm of radio dramaturgy
5 Radio listens to itself: resonant radio dramaturgies
Conclusion
Index