Audio Drama Modernism: The Missing Link Between Descriptive Phonograph Sketches and Microphone Plays on the Radio

By Tim Crook

Book Overview

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Audio Drama and Modernism-Gordon Lea 1926, the first manifesto.- Chapter 3 Radio Drama and the Avant-Garde-Lance Sieveking 1934, the second manifesto.- Chapter 4 The Modernist Turn in Literature and Radio Studies-how it changes understanding of the history of sound drama.- Chapter 5 Bridging Political Modernism between Descriptive Phonographs, 1920s political BBC radio drama and the 1930s agitational radio features.- Chapter 6 Modernist Phonograph Drama in a Belfast Street and a Montage on War-The sonic genius of Russell Hunting.- Chapter 7 Great War Descriptive Sketches.- Chapter 8 Angels of Mons and the Divine Service for King and Country.- Chapter 9 Are the Sound Drama Phonographs Examples of 'Modernist' Propaganda?.- Chapter 10 Reginald Berkeley-Pioneering Modernist Playwright and Political Radio Drama as Agitational Contemporaneity.- Chapter 11 Direct BBC censorship of modernist texts by D.G Bridson and his negotiation with Joan Littlewood and Olive Shapley of 'institutional containment'.- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Sound drama as political and agitational contemporaneity and modernist expression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811582432
• ISBN13: 9789811582431
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"