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Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama (2019)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2019). Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama. Studies in Comics, 10(2), 235-254. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00004_1

This article responds to McCloud’s theoretical framework for comics and applies this framework to audio drama, which I argue is, like comics, a mono-sensory medium (one can only be seen in static image and the other can only be heard); both require a... Read More about Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama.

Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience (2019)
Journal Article
experience. Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 10(1&2), https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.10.1-2.1_1

At first glance, silent film and audio drama may appear antithetical modes of expression. Nevertheless, an interesting tradition of silent film-to-radio adapta-tions has emerged on BBC Radio Drama. Beyond this link between silent... Read More about Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience.

Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future (2019)
Book
McMurtry, L. (2019). Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future. Intellect Books

This book is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. This volume examines the aesthetic, cultural and technical elements of audio drama along with its context within the literary canon. It pr... Read More about Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future.

“No one ever sees the Angel" : adapting The Phantom of the Opera (2018)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2018). “No one ever sees the Angel" : adapting The Phantom of the Opera. In L. Raw (Ed.), Adapted from the Original : Essays on the Value and Values of Works Remade for a New Medium (41-58). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company

“Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights (2017)
Journal Article
new frights. Palgrave Communications, 3, 17075. https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2017.75

During the last ten years the ever-fertile horror and Gothic genres have birthed a new type of fright-fiction: podcast horror. Podcast horror is a narrative horror form based in audio media and the properties of sound. Despite association with oral... Read More about “Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights.