Table of Contents
List of plates, Acknowledgements, Part I: PRACTICE MEETS THEORY, 1. A New Media History Perspective through Audio Drama, 2. Radio Drama as Modernity, 3. The Electrophone or Théâtrophone: broadcasting audio drama before the radio, 4. The Six Ages of Audio Drama and the Internet Epoch, 5. From Sound Houses to the Phonograph Sound Play, 6. A Technological Time-line, 7. A Culturalist Approach to Internet Audio Drama, Part II: SOUND THEORY AND PRACTICE, 8. Radio Drama is Not a Blind Medium, 9. Sound Design Vocabulary, 10. The Cinematic and Musical Inspiration, Part III: THE NEW RADIO DRAMA FORM: SKITS AND LIVE IMPROVISATIONS, 11. Blurring Fiction with Reality, 12. Radio Drama Panics: a cross-cultural phenomenon, 13. Moving from Burlesque to Propaganda and News, 14. The War of the Worlds Effect: Spoonface Steinberg?, 15. Spoonface Steinberg: constructing the Holocaust as a means of identification, Part IV: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WRITING AUDIO DRAMA, 16. The Writing Agenda for Audio Drama, 17. Creating the Character and Effective Use of Characterisation, 18. Writing Dialogue, Part V: CONSTRUCTING THE RADIO DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, 19. The Phantom Distinction, 20. Making the Documentary Feature, Part VI: THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF DIRECTING AND PERFORMANCE, 21. Directorial Responsibility, 22. Managing the Production, 23. Experimental Direction and Performance, Notes, Audio drama bibliography, Index