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“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

Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences (2017)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2017). Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 24(2), 270-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2017.1296448

Imagery generation in dramatized audio drama is still poorly understood with the majority of work having been done from a radio advertising perspective. This study sought to understand audio drama imagery generation by using teenage listeners. The st... Read More about Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences.

“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.

Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama (2015)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2015). Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama. In I. Ermida (Ed.), Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts. Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi

The most hideous aspects of Dracula and his vampire brethren are visual ones – pallor, dark hirsute hands, piercing eyes, razor-sharp fangs. The settings, too, in Dracula are integral to creating mood: for example, Harker’s journey into Transylvania... Read More about Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama.

The future of satellite audio drama (2015)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2015). The future of satellite audio drama. Peripeti, 22,

The audio drama audience in English-speaking countries such as the US, the UK, and New Zealand in the second decade of the twenty-first century faces an embarrassment of riches. Technological advances such as the podcast have made the creation of au... Read More about The future of satellite audio drama.

Framing errors : reality and fiction in audio drama (2015)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2015). Framing errors : reality and fiction in audio drama. Journal of American studies of Turkey, 41, 5-16

Many genres and media create a blurring line between reality and fiction. Radio serials and in particular radio soap operas have inspired devotion in their listeners to the point where their fans throw themselves wholeheartedly into a universe of out... Read More about Framing errors : reality and fiction in audio drama.