Radio: The Life Story of a Technology
ISBN: 9780313331671 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles the history of radio as technology and as media. Radio grew from a clumsy, temperamental form of wireless telegraph to a system that is so ubiquitous and easy to use that it has disappeared to users as a technology and became part of the fabric of human existence. This biography charts the growth of the technical end of radio, starting with the history of electricity, and moving through the invention of vacuum tubes, the heterodyne, FM, transistors, and microchips. But the history of radio is not just wires and electricity--it's the story of strange characters, deep... This book chronicles the history of radio as technology and as media. Radio grew from a clumsy, temperamental form of wireless telegraph to a syste... |
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240,24 zł |
On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio
ISBN: 9780340652312 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surpassed by television as the primary source of entertainment and information, radio still has a unique place in the mass media spectrum. At once powerfully pervasive and totally invisible, it's a fascinating subject for study. This wide-ranging theoretical and critical approach provides an in-depth examination of radio's codes (speech, music, noise, and silence), the conventions of using these codes, and the dominant modes of reception. The text offers a vocabulary and methodology for analyzing radio programs, drawing on work by both media theorists and professional broadcasters in... Surpassed by television as the primary source of entertainment and information, radio still has a unique place in the mass media spectrum. At once ... |
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217,80 zł |
International Radio Journalism
ISBN: 9780415096737 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radio journalists have witnessed much of the history of the twentieth century. From early documentary recordings, to the ground-breaking war reporting of Ed Murrow and Richard Dimbleby, to the sophisticated commentaries of Alistair Cooke and reporters such as Fergal Keane, International Radio Journalism explores the way radio has covered the most important stories this century and the way in which it continues to document events in Britan, America, Europe and many other countries around the world.
International Radio Journalism is both a theoretical textbook and a... Radio journalists have witnessed much of the history of the twentieth century. From early documentary recordings, to the ground-breaking war reporting...
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191,87 zł |
Radio Drama: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415216036 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.
Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction and reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts and analysing radio broadcasts from America, Britain, Canada and Australia, the book explores the practicalities of producing drama for radio. Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has... Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and ...
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186,68 zł |
Women and Radio: Airing Differences
ISBN: 9780415220705 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining classic work on radio with innovative research, journalism and biography, Women and Radio offers a variety of approaches to understanding the position of women as producers, presenters and consumers as well as offering guidelines, advice and helpful information for women wanting to work in radio.
Women and Radio examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming and reveals and explains the inequalities experienced by women working in the industry. Combining classic work on radio with innovative research, journalism and biography, Women and Radio offers a variety of approaches to underst...
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700,25 zł |
Women and Radio: Airing Differences
ISBN: 9780415220712 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the very first days of national broadcasting at the BBC and the innovative work of producers and editors, through to Zoe Ball doing breakfast, women have been at the heart of radio, yet marginalized in the official histories. Combining classic work on radio with innovative research, journalism and biography, this book offers a variety of approaches to understanding the position of women as producers, presenters and consumers as well as offering guidelines, advice and helpful information for women wanting to work in radio. It examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies...
From the very first days of national broadcasting at the BBC and the innovative work of producers and editors, through to Zoe Ball doing breakfast, wo...
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191,87 zł |
Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio
ISBN: 9780415928212 / Angielski / Miękka / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radio defined and defied American culture in the early 20th century, setting patterns for all media that followed. This text is a comprehensive history of the medium and includes such topics as: 1940s' radio suspense drama; quiz shows; American propagandists for Axis Powers; the Green Hornet and race; black liberation radio; NPR; and the Christian right and radio.
Radio defined and defied American culture in the early 20th century, setting patterns for all media that followed. This text is a comprehensive histor...
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228,18 zł |
British Radio Drama
ISBN: 9780521293839 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apart from pronouncements by broadcasters and the more or less casual remarks of the dramatists themselves, there has been little serious attempt in Britain to deal critically and historically with the subject of radio drama. This volume concentrates upon a small but influential group of writers who have devoted all or part of their attention to writing plays for radio.
The introduction charts the development of radio drama from its inception in the 1920s and its changing relationships with the theatre and later with television. It shows how the early deal of broadcasting significant works... Apart from pronouncements by broadcasters and the more or less casual remarks of the dramatists themselves, there has been little serious attempt in B...
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158,58 zł |
Monitor: The Last Great Radio Show
ISBN: 9780595213955 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,83 zł |
Monitor (Take 2): The revised, expanded inside story of network radio's greatest program
ISBN: 9780595281770 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For two decades starting in 1955, millions of Americans spent their weekends listening to an extraordinary radio program--NBC's "Monitor,"
Running continuously from Saturday morning through Sunday night, "Monitor" featured big-name hosts like Dave Garroway, Hugh Downs, Gene Rayburn, Ed McMahon, Henry Morgan, Barry Nelson, Joe Garagiola, Bill Cullen, Jim Lowe and Murray the K--all broadcasting from mammoth studios called "Radio Central." "Monitor" spotlighted a galaxy of feature reporters such as Arlene Francis, Gene Shalit, Bob Considine and Mel Allen. Comedy came from Bob and Ray,... For two decades starting in 1955, millions of Americans spent their weekends listening to an extraordinary radio program--NBC's "Monitor,"
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95,18 zł |
British Broadcasting: A Study in Monopoly
ISBN: 9780714630694 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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700,25 zł |
Writing for Radio
ISBN: 9780719058431 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a comprehensive guide to the essential theoretical and practical aspects of radio writing in all principal genres--short stories, plays, documentaries/docu-dramas, talks, adaptations/dramatizations, poems, and advertisements. Vincent McInerney offers historical overviews of the development of each of these categories and an analysis of the nature of radio itself--an attempt to isolate a radio language, a syntax, and vocabulary that can produce pictures in the mind of the listener. He shows that radio can be taught effectively as prose, drama, and verse. Examples for analysis are...
Here is a comprehensive guide to the essential theoretical and practical aspects of radio writing in all principal genres--short stories, plays, docum...
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109,15 zł |
The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952
ISBN: 9780742537972 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few twentieth-century artists are renowned in such a variety of media as Orson Welles. Well known for his work in film and theater as director, actor, and writer, Welles's influence in the field of radio has often been overlooked for the more glamorous entertainment of his movies. The Medium and the Magician is a comprehensive review of Welles's radio career, devoted to assessing his radio artistry and influence in the field. Paul Heyer offers a new look at the infamous War of the Worlds panic broadcast and a discussion of how Welles's use of sound in radio influenced his motion pictures.
Few twentieth-century artists are renowned in such a variety of media as Orson Welles. Well known for his work in film and theater as director, actor,...
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245,70 zł |
Radio: A Post Nine-Eleven Strategy for Reaching the World's Poor
ISBN: 9780761832546 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featured October 11, 2006 on NPR/WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi Show In a post 9/11 world where a few ruthless men and women can use modern technology to create powerful webs of conspiracy, the public voice of radio is needed more than ever. Computers trap us in the blue glow of their virtual reality. Cell phones connect us, but what do we have to say to each other and especially to the poor that will impact their lives? Radio attempts to answer this question. Radio listening groups helped Tanzania create a new democracy in the aftermath of colonialism. Radio taught young children in Kenya to speak...
Featured October 11, 2006 on NPR/WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi Show In a post 9/11 world where a few ruthless men and women can use modern technology to create p...
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358,37 zł |
Talking Radio: An Oral History of American Radio in the Television Age: An Oral History of American Radio in the Television Age
ISBN: 9780765603982 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes interviews with such well known personalities as Walter Cronkite, Dick Clark, Steve Allen, Art Linkletter, Paul Harvey, Howard K. Smith, Ed McMahon, Bruce Morrow, as well as more than fifty other individuals who were or continue to be actively involved in radio.
Includes interviews with such well known personalities as Walter Cronkite, Dick Clark, Steve Allen, Art Linkletter, Paul Harvey, Howard K. Smith, Ed M...
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700,25 zł |
The Beginning of Broadcast Regulation in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780786407378 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This chronicle of US broadcasting regulation covers three crucial periods from the Radio Act of 1912 to the 1927 act that still serves as the basis for regulation. The author used primary documents to create this detailed analysis.
This chronicle of US broadcasting regulation covers three crucial periods from the Radio Act of 1912 to the 1927 act that still serves as the basis fo...
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248,84 zł |
The Great Radio Heroes, Rev. Ed.
ISBN: 9780786408504 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1967, Jim Harmon published the first edition of The Great Radio Heroes to great acclaim. Thirty-three years later comes an illustrated, corrected, revised and greatly expanded new edition... Once there was a time--and it was not so long ago--when radio listening, especially to the dramas, was one of the most important events in many a young person's life. People developed a love affair with the radio, and though the old times are now gone forever, the love affair continues. The heroes and settings of radio drama spurred the imagination to supply its own and much better images than visual...
In 1967, Jim Harmon published the first edition of The Great Radio Heroes to great acclaim. Thirty-three years later comes an illustrated, corrected, ...
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188,13 zł |
Radio Comedy Diary: A Researcher's Guide to the Actual Jokes and Quotes of the Top Comedy Programs of 1947-1950
ISBN: 9780786409686 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a resource of comedy recordings for radio scholars. Included is a notes and comments section which includes background material on all the radio programmes in the book.
This is a resource of comedy recordings for radio scholars. Included is a notes and comments section which includes background material on all the rad...
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188,13 zł |
Say Goodnight, Gracie: The Last Years of Network Radio
ISBN: 9780786411689 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines what could be called the final decade of AM network radio and the many factors that contributed to its decline. The first chapter is an overview of AM radio in the 1950s. The second chapter covers 1950 through 1953, when radio was still a popular medium but faced a need to make changes in its programing. Chapter three covers 1954 through 1956, three years in which radio experienced losses of its primary audience and some of its most popular shows. Chapter four, 1957 through 1960, chronicles the end of AM radio in homes, the cancellation of almost all remaining programs,...
This work examines what could be called the final decade of AM network radio and the many factors that contributed to its decline. The first chapter i...
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188,13 zł |
The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting
ISBN: 9780786411993 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history concentrates on the years between 1920 and 1930 in the United States when radio was rapidly growing and changing. It covers all important areas in the development of the radio industry, from business and finance to the rise of networks.
This history concentrates on the years between 1920 and 1930 in the United States when radio was rapidly growing and changing. It covers all important...
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188,13 zł |