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This book is essentially about me - me midst the Goons!      Me! Me! Me!      ( How disgusting! What's this fellow going on about? )     It is an unashamed celebration...

This is the HARDBACK version. When Dashiell Hammett's THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE made its debut over CBS in August of 1946, the series became an instant success. Howard Duff, a virtual unknown among Hollywood circles, found himself bombarded with movie...

The rich history of the Yuletide masterpiece in the "theater of the mind," both broadcast and on record from 1905 to today.With recollections by ARTHUR ANDERSON - LIONEL BARRYMORE - LONNIE BURR - TOMMY COOK - MICHAEL C. GWYNNE - VERE JOHNS - WILLIAM...

The history of broadcasting in Las Vegas began with the first radio station, KGIX, to crackle the airwaves in the 1920s, started by J.M. Jack Heaton, who ran the Las Vegas railroad operation. By the 1940s, the railroad was no longer a major factor;...

Damaged Language contains four radio plays by Richard Nelson:LANGUAGES SPOKEN HEREGiles Cooper Award winner   “a morally ambiguous comedy…an American in London thinks he’s translating a novel by a penniless Polish emigre,...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of how local community radio practitioners have embraced the digital revolution.

This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the...

"Top 40" was the preeminent American radio format of the 1950s and 1960s. Although several radio station group owners offered their own versions of the format, the AM stations owned by Todd Storz and his father were acknowledged as the principal...

The first half of the twentieth century was a golden age of American storytelling. Mailboxes burgeoned with pulp magazines, conveying an endless variety of fiction. Comic strips, with their ongoing dramatic storylines, were a staple of the papers,...

This book is becoming more important and relevant with every passing hour. There is no time to waste in learing how to navigate our secular age. Our Christian faith and influence can often appear shallow without practical application to business ministry...

This is a comprehensive encyclopedia to the more than 100 radio programs portraying the American West, in fact and fiction, heard by generations of listeners from the Great Depression through the Cold War era. The book includes both the popular and...

Now fans need no longer wait for the CBC to re-run recordings of Max Ferguson's notorious radio shows (assuming that the tapes have not all been destroyed by court order). A full dose of his lunacy, depravity, and flagrant disregard for management can...

For more than fifty years Red Barber was the voice of baseball. The game was broadcast sporadically until the late 1930s, when Barber burst into prominence by bringing it home to radio listeners, play by play. More than half a century later, he could...

The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio. In this...

Vic and Sade, an often absurd situation comedy written by the prolific Paul Rhymer, aired on America's radios from 1932 to 1944 (with short-lived revivals afterward). The title characters, known as "radio's home folks," were a married couple exploring...

London's Pirate Pioneers tells the story of the capital's pirate radio stations and the people who helped change the British broadcasting system.From the early hobbyist operations of the 1960s to the big commercial enterprises of the 1980s. From suburban...

Now in its tenth edition, the Audio Production Worktext offers a comprehensive introduction to audio production in radio, television, and film. This hands-on, student-friendly text demonstrates how to navigate modern radio production studios and utilize...

Twelve leading academics from across the United Kingdom use storylines from BBC Radio 4's The Archers to examine life in rural Borsetshire, bringing their academic research to new audiences. The irreverent but thought-provoking contributions will have...

Rediscover radio as it was broadcast during the Golden Age.From shows fondly remembered to those long forgotten, this was the experience of days spent listening to the radio during the early part of the past century. This three-volume set, researched and...

The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio presents the very best biographies of the internationally acclaimed three-volume Encyclopedia of Radio in a single volume. It includes more than 200 biographical entries on the most important and...

Book Description:Title: Shortwave Radio Mastery: A Listener's JourneyUnlock the Secrets of the AirwavesDive into the captivating world of "Shortwave Radio Mastery: A Listener's Journey" and embark on an adventure like no other. In this comprehensive...

When you are behind the BBC microphone, nobody knows whether you are a member of staff, or a freelancer. While on the other side, listeners and certain journalists may assess you better than officials, such as a Jordanian sports editor, who credited me...

For more than a century the world's most famous law enforcement body has inspired novelists, actors, and filmmakers. From "The Lone Ranger" to "Walker, Texas Ranger," from Zane Grey's "The Lone Star Ranger" to Larry...

A Director's Method for Film and Television (1992) presents the 'cinematic language' approach to directing for film and television directors. It shows how the viewer perceives the nuances of the various pictures used to tell the story, and how movement...

Materials for Learning (1981) examines the ability of books and broadcasts to change lives. It aims to supply guidelines for action and, where evidence is mixed or lacking, defining questions that still require answers.

The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children's own point of view. Contrary to most prevailing opinion, it contends that television has much to teach children, and gives us a different understanding of the child audience and the impact...

Writing Comedy for Television (1983) is a practical, step-by-step manual about how and what to write. It contains many examples from the scripts of various sitcoms and sketch shows. It demonstrates how to construct a storyline for a series, how to lay...

The Emmy-nominated star of the classic 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, Joan Davis (1912-1961) was also radio's highest paid comedienne in the 1940s--and she displayed her unique brand of knockabout comedy in more than forty films. This book provides a...

Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions shows how the present is troubled by the past and by the future, using the idea of haunting to explore psychoanalytically how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across...

The remarkable career of American actress Eve Arden (1908-1990) is thoroughly chronicled from her earliest stage work in 1926 (under her given name Eunice Quedens) to her final television role in a 1987 episode of Falcon Crest. Included are detailed...

The Popular Music Studies Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last decade and considers how popular music studies has expanded and developed to deal with these changes.A wide range of international contributors featuring some of the...

A collection of Sherlock Holmes radio scripts with detailed notes on Canonical references, rewrites, influences and the challenges of adapting Conan Doyles original tales for a 21st Century audience.

From Archie Andrews to Tom Mix, all radio characters and programs that ever stemmed from a comic book or comic strip in radio's golden age are collected here, for the first time, in an easy-to-read, A through Z book! From Ron's...

From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific...

Making Radio and Podcasts is a practical guide for anyone who wants to learn how to make successful programmes in the digital era. It examines the key roles in audio and podcasting: announcing, presenting, research, copywriting, producing, marketing and...

Charlotte Greenwood never intended to become a comedienne, but she was unfashionably tall at 5' 10" and her early aspirations to become a great dramatic actress eventually led her to the field of comedy. Greenwood, whose early life had taught her...

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was...

In Volume Two of Jack Benny's Lost Broadcasts, (25 episodes from August 1 to October 26, 1932), Benny and scriptwriter Harry Conn continue to craft a personality-based radio variety program. They draw on Benny's vaudeville style and explore new...

In Volume Two of Jack Benny's Lost Broadcasts, (25 episodes from August 1 to October 26, 1932), Benny and scriptwriter Harry Conn continue to craft a personality-based radio variety program. They draw on Benny's vaudeville style and explore new...

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing, interdisciplinary field. With a basis in source-oriented studies, such as novel-to-stage and stage-to-film adaptations, this volume also seeks to highlight the...

In Volume Three of Jack Benny's Lost Broadcasts, (25 episodes from October 30, 1932 to January 26, 1933), Benny and scriptwriter Harry Conn face upheaval on every front. Sponsor Canada Dry moves them to a new network (CBS) and different broadcast nights...