All Outputs (36)

“One of Us”: Examining the Authenticity and Parasocial Relationships of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts (2024)
Journal Article

Previous research has provided limited insight into why podcasts hosts are perceived to be authentic and has not examined how characteristics that are seen as being indicative of authenticity can relate to parasocial relationships (PSRs). In this stu... Read More about “One of Us”: Examining the Authenticity and Parasocial Relationships of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts.

“One of Us”: Examining the Authenticity and Parasocial Relationships of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts (2024)
Journal Article

Previous research has not provided limited insight into why podcasts hosts are perceived to be authentic or how and has not examined how characteristics that are seen as being indicative of authenticity can relate to parasocial relationships (PSRs).... Read More about “One of Us”: Examining the Authenticity and Parasocial Relationships of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts.

CORRIDORS - An Exploration of Muslim Female Identity and Representation Through Rap And Visual Album (2024)
Thesis

In contemporary British media and culture, the representation of Muslim women is still narrow, stereotypical, one-dimensional, and crucially lacking in visibility. This thesis sits as the counterpart to the practice as research rap-visual album Corri... Read More about CORRIDORS - An Exploration of Muslim Female Identity and Representation Through Rap And Visual Album.

The World Without, the World Within and the Space Between: Amanda Dalton’s Adaptation of Nosferatu for BBC Radio 3 (2024)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. G. (2024). The World Without, the World Within and the Space Between: Amanda Dalton’s Adaptation of Nosferatu for BBC Radio 3. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 17(2), 205-218. https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00120_1

Made for BBC Radio 3, The Midnight Cry of the Deathbird (2012) is an adaptation of F. W. Murnau’s German expressionist silent film Nosferatu (1922), which serves as both a target text (of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, 1897) and a source text (of The M... Read More about The World Without, the World Within and the Space Between: Amanda Dalton’s Adaptation of Nosferatu for BBC Radio 3.

Listen Without Limits: True Crime, Audio Drama, and BBC Sounds Podcasts (2024)
Book Chapter

Podcasting is dominated by “niche” genres, like chatcasts/chumcasts and true crime, that sometimes obscure the more varied potential offerings of the form. In 2018, the United Kingdom’s BBC launched a new streaming platform, BBC Sounds, a revamp of c... Read More about Listen Without Limits: True Crime, Audio Drama, and BBC Sounds Podcasts.

"Like One of Us": Examining the Authenticity, Parasocial Relationships and Influence of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts (2024)
Thesis

Podcasting is a medium that has received insufficient academic attention despite being on the rise with recent increases in both audience numbers and advertising revenue. This thesis utilizes mixed method research to investigate the perceived authent... Read More about "Like One of Us": Examining the Authenticity, Parasocial Relationships and Influence of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts.

Pilgrim on BBC Radio 4: Dark Fantasy, Public Service Broadcasting and Transmedia Possibilities (2024)
Journal Article

While much scholarship has focused on BBC radio drama of the first half of the 20th century, very little to date has dealt seriously with the first decades of the 21st century. Sebastian Baczkiewicz’s Pilgrim debuted on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. This a... Read More about Pilgrim on BBC Radio 4: Dark Fantasy, Public Service Broadcasting and Transmedia Possibilities.

The Spy (BBC Radio 4, 2012): Creating Historical Ambiance through Music in British Radio Drama (2023)
Book Chapter

Immersion into a storyworld is important for audiences, and one way to create a sense of immersion is through the use of music. Media depictions of historical periods make powerful impressions upon audiences, and historians often contest the way hist... Read More about The Spy (BBC Radio 4, 2012): Creating Historical Ambiance through Music in British Radio Drama.

The Legacy of the Fanzine Renaissance (2023)
Book Chapter

Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio (2022)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2022). Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio. Gothic Studies, 24(2), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0131

Horror and the Gothic have long been staple genres of radio drama, including the radio drama revival series of the late 1970s–early 1980s, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974–82). During the same time period, the Canadian government, recognising an emerg... Read More about Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio.

Transgressing boundary rituals on radio (2022)
Book Chapter

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.

Radio Drama Takeover 2: Claybourne (2021)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2021). Radio Drama Takeover 2: Claybourne. https://doi.org/10.14453/rdr.77

By building a sense of community and creating a unique storyworld through imagination, Claybourne (1998) was also a harbinger of things to come. The “proudly New Zealand” serialized radio drama, broadcast on commercial radio, was designed as stealth... Read More about Radio Drama Takeover 2: Claybourne.

Special Section: Radio Drama Takeover (2021)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2021). Special Section: Radio Drama Takeover. https://doi.org/10.14453/rdr.80

We make a case for the necessity, the pleasure, and the provocation of radio drama by arguing that it is important for its accessibility, the way it uses imagination, and its sense of intimacy. We note the current
state of academic study on radio d... Read More about Special Section: Radio Drama Takeover.

Immersive night : audio horror in radio and podcasting (2021)
Journal Article
Euritt, A., & McMurtry, L. (2021). Immersive night : audio horror in radio and podcasting

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

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_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.

Look Under Your Feet, The Past Is There – The Importance of Place in the Development of Audio Drama (2019)
Data

Documents and other elements of a practice-based research output. An audio drama created and produced to communicate information about the Badlands National Park.

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