Theater of the mind : imagination, aesthetics, and American radio drama

Theater of the mind : imagination, aesthetics, and American radio drama / Neil Verma.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verma, Neil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Radio plays, American > History and criticism > 20th century.
Radio broadcasting > United States > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / General.
Radio broadcasting
Radio plays, American
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : What is the "theater of the mind"?
  • Part I. 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
  • Part II. Communication and interiority in 1940s radio, 1941-1950 : Honeymoon shocker
  • Dramas of susceptibility and transmission
  • Eavesdropper, ventriloquist, signalman
  • Part III. Radio and the postwar mood, 1945-1955 : Later than you think?
  • Just the facts
  • In trials
  • Coda : Instruction and excavation
  • Guide to radio programs.

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