Richard Hand

Listen in terror (eBook, ePUB)

British horror radio from the advent of broadcasting to the digital age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through to the digital audio cultures of our own time. The book offers an historical, critical and theoretical exploration of horror radio and audio performance examining key areas such as writing, narrative, performance practice and reception throughout the history of that most unjustly neglected of popular art forms: radio drama and 'spoken word' auditory cultures. The volume draws on extensive archival research as well as insightful interviews with significant writers, producers and actors. The book offers detailed analysis of major radio series such as Appointment with Fear, The Man in Black, The Price of Fear and Fear on Four as well as one-off horror plays, comedy-horror and experimental uses of binaural and digital technology in producing uncanny audio.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526102577
• Artikelnr.: 48796193

Autorenporträt

Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of South Wales

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Listening in terror 1. Are you sitting (un)comfortably?
Sound, horror and radio 2. The quintessence of British horror radio:
Appointment with Fear 3. 'This is your story-teller, the man in black':
Hosting horror 4. Horror radio in the 1950s 5. The 1960s and 1970s:
Parodies and price 6. The man in black returns: Fear on four 7. Terror
tales for the twenty-first century: The man in black 8. Adaption and
twenty-first century horror radio 9. Multifarious terrors: Horror audio in
the digital age Conclusion: Closing thoughts Index