Masterful stories: lessons from golden age radio
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Roaring Twenties: The Beginnings of Radio Broadcasting 3
Audio Stories in Twenty-First-Century Media 11
1 A Theory of Masterful Stories
Story Principles and Techniques from Radio’s Golden Age 21
Foundational Elements 26
Qualities Unique to the Medium of Radio 33
Substance 34
Early Radio Program Production Theory 36
2 Golden Age Radio Plays: Examining 120 Case Studies
Stating the Central Research Question 47
Using Multiple Research Methods 48
Framing the Analysis 55
3 Radio’s Earliest Plays: Inventing the Medium’s
Storytelling Form in the 1920s and 1930s
Earliest Radio Plays 63
E rawn from Literature: The LeatherstockingTales 67
viii Contents
Radio Plays for Children 68
Let’s Pretend 68
Yiddish Theater and Radio’s The Goldbergs 72
The Goldbergs 74
Marémoto: Earliest Fact-Based Narrative? 75
Wlustling in a Dressing Room 77
Pioneer Physician Elizabeth Blackwell 77
Death Rides a Highway 78
Developing Convincing Radio Sound Effects 80
Murder Castle 80
Narrative Structure: Stream of Consciousness 82
Musical Accompaniment 83
TJte Lone Ranger 84
Dramatic Structure and the Role of a Host or Narrator 85
Lux Theaters Debut 85
Magnificent Obsession 86
Adapting the Book: A Comparison of the Opening
of the Film and Radio Play 87
It Happened One Night 90
Angels with Dirty Faces 92
The Blue Bird 93
Using Perspective in Radio Plays 93
Mercury Theater 94
The War of the Worlds 94
The Count of Monte Cristo 97
A Passenger to Bali 99
Ghost Corps: Ordered to Aswan 100
Puzzles of the Mind: Sherlock Holmes, Radio’s Detective 101
Summary 101
4 Radio Hits Its Dramatic Stride: The Early 1940s
Factually Based or Inspired Dramatized Nonfiction 111
Johnny Got His Gun 112
Native Land 114
We Hold These Truths 116
On a Note of Triumph 117
Lost Horizon 118
For Whom the Bell Tolls 119
Historical and Data-Driven Dramatizations 120
Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres 120
William Mulholland and the Southland Water System 122
Contents lx
Fantasy for Children 122
Why the Sea Is Salt 123
Princess Moonbeam 124
Mell-A-Lot 125
The Undecided Molecule 126
Emotions at Play: Desperation and Dread 126
The Whistler 127
Avarice 128
Death Has a Thirst 128
Suspense 129
Thrillers: Horror and Terror 129
The Hitchhiker 130
Lord of the Witch Doctors 131
The Pit and the Pendulum 132
Sorry, Wrong Number 133
The Most Dangerous Game 134
The Country of the Blind 134
The 415 Express 135
Bathysphere 136
Last of the Devereaux 136
The House in Cypress Canyon 137
The Shadow of Death 138
Drive-In 138
Du n wich Ho nor 139
The Oblong Box 139
Psychological Thrillers 140
The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson 140
Make Ready My Grave 140
Masterpieces of Conflict and Mystery 141
The Marvelous Barastro 141
Donovan s Brain 142
August Heat 143
Sherlock Holmes and the Disappearing Scientists 143
From the Holmes Casebook: A Left-Brain Homework Assignment 144
Summary 144
Classics Continued Post—World War II:
From the Mid to Late 1940s 153
Humanizing History 154
Beautiful Dreamer 154
The Big Story 156
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The Story of Silent Might 157
Railway to Freedom 160
Pride of the Yankees 162
Radio’s Hard-Boiled and Moir Fiction 163
Go Away, Dixie Gillian 163
Dragnet 165
A .22 Rifle for Christmas 165
The Hurdy-Gurdy Murder Case 167
Examining History through Imagination 168
Frenchman’s Creek 168
Crime and Punishment 169
Escape! 171
Pollock and the Porroh Man 171
Fall of the House of Usher 172
A Shipment of Mute Fate 173
Leiningen versus the Ants 174
The Origin of the Lone Ranger 175
Red River 176
Of Human Bondage 177
Reimagining the Contemporary World 178
The Thing on the Fourble Board 178
Murder in Jazz Time 178
Murder on Margin 180
A Little Piece of Rope 180
Papa Benjamin 180
Ancient Sorceries 181
Broadcasting Down Under 182
Mystery and Intrigue 182
Orient Express 182
The Fortune of Vargas 183
Second-Class Passenger 183
Backseat Driver 184
Incident at Arroyo Grande 185
Summary 187
6 Post—World War II Radio Drama: Early to Mid 1950s
Diversity Defines the Decade 197
SOS 197
Might Beat’s A Case of Butter 198
Burden of Guilt 199
Chinese Elephant Puzzle 200
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The Corpse Said Ouch 201
Mundane Terror 201
Earth Abides 201
Three Skeleton Key 202
Science Fiction and Fantasy 204
The Alartian Chronicles 204
Marionettes Inc. 205
The Veldt 206
The Lottery 208
Crime and Culture 209
A Ticket to Tangier 209
The Whistler: Seattle, Take Three 212
The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner 212
Scuttlebutt 213
Escaping into the Mid 1950s 215
Escape/ 215
The Rjeturn 215
The Price of the Head 216
The Loup-Caron 216
Drawn from the Historical Record 216
The Diary of Captain Scott 217
Bird of Paradise 217
El Guitarrero 218
Britt Potiset’s Christmas Carol 219
The Dark Wall 220
The Scarlet Plague 221
The Heart of Kali 222
Inspired by Contemporary or Historical Circumstance 222
Dorothea Lynde Dix 223
A Scandal in Bohemia 224
Summary 226
7 End of an Era: Exemplary Plays from the 1950s
and Beyond
Suspense Winds Down 234
The Prophecy of Bertha Abbott 234
Treasure Chest of Don Jose 235
Gallardo 236
Criminal Justice: Talcs of Law and Order and Mystery 236
The Todd Matter 237
The Photographer 238
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Fantasy and Science Fiction 238
Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls 238
A Gun for Dinosaur 239
Parables 240
Kaleidoscope 241
Nightfall 242
Brave New World 243
Ethics and Allegories 244
Occurrence at Oivl Creek Bridge 244
Ballad of the Iron Horse 245
Remittance Man 246
Post֊ 1950s 247
The Curse of Kamoshek 247
Porgy, Bess, and George 248
The Golem 250
Summary 251
8 Concluding Reflections on Stories from
Golden Age Radio
Race, Gender, and Diversity in Old Time Radio 259
The End of the Golden Age: Separating from the Listeners 261
Lessons Learned 262
Emotional Engagement 267
Intellectual Engagement 268
Transcendent Connection 268
Substance 268
Story telling Techniques and Principles 269
Digital Transformations 270
Future Directions 275
Appendix A: Codebook and Data
Appendix B: Second-Person Opening
Appendix C: List of Interviews Conducted for the Book
Appendix D: Cronkite’s Radio Play Selections in the Book
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Index
351
The early eras of radio storytelling have entered and continue to enter the public domain
in large quantities, offering unprecedented access to the Golden Age of Radio. Author and
Professor John Pavlik mines the best this age of radio has to offer in Masterful Stories, an
examination of the masterpieces of audio storytelling. This book provides a chronological
history of the best of the best from radio s Golden Age, outlining a core set of principles and
techniques that made these radio plays enduring examples of storytelling. It suggests that, by
using these techniques, stories can engage audiences emotionally and intellectually. Grounded
in a historical and theoretical understanding of radio drama, this volume illuminates the
foundational works that proceeded popular modem shows such as Radiolab, The Moth, and
Serial,
Masterful Stories will be a powerful resource in both media history courses and courses
teaching audio storytelling for modern radio and other audio formats, such as podcasting. It
will appeal to audio fans looking to learn about and understand the early days of radio drama.
John V. Pavlik is a Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the School
of Communication and Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Pavlik has
written widely about the impact of technological change on journalism, media, and society. His
new book offers a historical perspective on the development of storytelling in the first electronic
medium of mass communication, radio.
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