| Writing for Radio Contributor(s): McInerney, Vincent (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719058430 ISBN-13: 9780719058431 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2001 Annotation: Here is a comprehensive guide to the essential theoretical and practical aspects of radio writing in all principal genres--short stories, plays, documentaries/docu-dramas, talks, adaptations/dramatizations, poems, and advertisements. Vincent McInerney offers historical overviews of the development of each of these categories and an analysis of the nature of radio itself--an attempt to isolate a radio language, a syntax, and vocabulary that can produce pictures in the mind of the listener. He shows that radio can be taught effectively as prose, drama, and verse. Examples for analysis are included from both broadcast and non-broadcast work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Radio - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 808.066 |
| LCCN: 2001031227 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.58" (0.77 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Writing for radio brings together theoretical and practical aspects of radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio genres - short stories, plays, documentaries/drama documentaries, talks and features, adaptations/dramatisations, poems, and advertisements. It contains historical overviews of the genesis and development of each of these categories and attempts an analysis of the nature of radio itself. For the first time there is an attempt to isolate a 'radio language', a syntax and vocabulary guaranteed to produce pictures in the mind of the listener. This means radio can be taught as an academic subject as all writing - prose, drama and verse, can be tested as radio and examples for analysis are used from both broadcast and non-broadcast work. |