Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time
(2020)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L., & Fowler, A. (2020). Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time
Outputs (31)
Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama (2019)
Journal Article
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_1At 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 BooksThis 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.
Look under your feet, the past is there – the importance of place in the development of audio drama : 300 word statement (2019)
Other
McMurtry, L. (2019). Look under your feet, the past is there – the importance of place in the development of audio drama : 300 word statement
“No one ever sees the Angel" : adapting The Phantom of the Opera (2018)
Book Chapter
“I know what a podcast Is” : post-Serial fiction and podcast media identity (2018)
Book Chapter
Look Under Your Feet - 300 word statement (2018)
Other
McMurtry, L. (2018). Look Under Your Feet - 300 word statement
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/10.1080/19376529.2017.1296448Imagery 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.2017.75During 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.