RESEARCH - INTRODUCTION - THEORY OF RADIO DRAMA
| See - Essay - some specific issues |
| Research topics and ideas also at Radio Drama Theory Lesson Plan |
There is plainly more than one radio play, and not all radio plays are equal.
Radio drama theorising must introduce the central topics of the radio drama experience :
| RECEPTION THEORY: the listener's experiences via a monaural medium - as the radio drama craft is based on the artistic manipulation of our common mental system |
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RECEPTION THEORY: the involvement of all the sensory array (other senses such as sight and touch etc.) in the listener's perceptual filling-in - see audiences (reception theory) |
| RECEPTION THEORY AND RADIO APPARATUS THEORY: the interaction of ear and the recording microphone, and of the ear with the radio apparatus in production, post-production and broadcast (see Radio apparatus theory) |
| RECEPTION THEORY: aurality as a central area of radio theory |
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RECEPTION THEORY: emotions in radio drama |
| PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES - RELATION TO THE EXTRA-RADIO WORLD: classical and postclassical discussion of radio's relation to reality (the extra-radio world) across radio plays, radio documentaries and features, and radio drama-documentaries |
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FOUNDATIONAL THEORY PROBLEMS - MASTER NARRATIVE - MIDDLE-RANGE THEORISING: radio drama theorised through a master-narrative system as semiotics (radio text and the semiotic sign) or radio approached through middle-range theorising (see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it? for middle-range theorising) |
| RECEPTION THEORY - COGNITIVE SCIENCE : radio as perceptual data |
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RECEPTION THEORY - cognitive mapping - mental geography - navigating or orienteering through the fictional 'scenery' of radio drama - see Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 1 Number 2, July 2000 (on this site) |
| RECEPTION THEORY: radio characters and listener identification (and the possible use of suture as a theoretical concept) - see audiences (reception theory) for suture |
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FORMALISM: narrative forms, genre and narrative (see Narrative) |
| GENRE: subjective and lyrical forms |
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AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: theories of interpretation and evaluation (aesthetics) |
| POLITICAL ECONOMY APPROACH - CULTURAL MATERIALISM: relations between radio drama, culture and society, broadcasting institution - political economy approach |
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PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES - FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES: use of analytical philosphy, use of cognitive science, empirical research, relationship to the social sciences |
| PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES - FILM-PHILOSOPHY - online journal |
| APPARATUS THEORY: history of radio drama technology - |
| Radio Drama Reading List |
See also:
| Epistemology |
| Oculocentrism or ocularocentrism |
| audiences (reception theory) |
| Theory - what is it? |
| Radio theory - what is it for? |
| psychology of perception and emotion |
| Phenomenology |
| Listening as a secondary activity - see audiences (reception theory) |
SOME KEY THEORETICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
| Allen, Richard and Smith, Murray, 1997, Film Theory and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Branigan, Edward, 1997, 'Sound, Epistemology, Film', chapter 4 in Allen, Richard and Smith, Murray, Film Theory and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| McAdams, Stephen, and Bigand, Emmanuel, Thinking in Sound. The Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition, 1993, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Plack, Christopher, 2005, The Sense of Hearing, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers |
| Marking criteria |
| BBC Editorial Guidelines - links and excerpts |
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