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Transgressing boundary rituals on radio (2022)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2022). Transgressing boundary rituals on radio. In The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies. London: Routledge

One of the hallmarks of radio has always been its imaginative and immersive potential. From the 1920s on, listeners have frequently found broadcast reality/fiction to be problematic. Once boundary rituals were established, demarcating out for listene... Read More about Transgressing boundary rituals on radio.

“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

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.

Doctor Who, Steampunk, and the Victorian Christmas (2013)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2013). Doctor Who, Steampunk, and the Victorian Christmas. In D. Babilas, & L. Krawczyk-Zywko (Eds.), We the Neo-Victorians : Perspectives on Literature and Culture (185-208). Warsaw: University of Warsaw