By Neil Verma
For generations, enthusiasts and critics have characterised vintage American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This booklet unpacks that characterization by means of recasting the radio play as a classy item inside of its special historic context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of serious tips on how to greater than six thousand recordings to supply a brilliant new account of radio drama from the melancholy to the chilly War.
In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates mythical dramas via the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key courses starting from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater at the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to bare how those courses promoted and advanced a chain of types of the imagination.
With shut readings of person sound results and charts of large developments between codecs, Verma not just supplies us a brand new account of the main flourishing type of style fiction within the mid-twentieth century but in addition offers a robust case for the relevant position of the aesthetics of sound within the historical past of recent experience.
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