Radio’s “Oblong Blur”: Notes on the Corwinesque
Miguel Covarrubias, untitled iIlustration to “Radio I: A $140,000,000 Art,” Fortune (May, 1938). Editor’s Note: Today, Neil Verma kicks off our summer series “Tune In to the Past,” which explores the...
View ArticleSound at SCMS 2013
For the 2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies meeting in Chicago, Sounding Out! enlisted one of our favorite guest writers, radio scholar Neil Verma (whom you’ll remember from our excellent Tune...
View ArticleFrom Mercury to Mars: “‘War of the Worlds’ as Residual Radio” from Antenna
“WOTW’s notoriety is obviously explicitly a result of the attention the mainstream media gave it at the time, as well as the fame and success that followed Orson Welles’s ascendance in film, and...
View ArticleFrom Mercury to Mars: Cynthia B. Meyers’s” Why Teach War of the Worlds?” from...
“I turn down the lights and encourage students to close their eyes or rest their heads on the desks. Then I play the first 20 minutes of The Mercury Theater on the Air 1938 broadcast of War of the...
View ArticleFrom Mercury to Mars: A Hard Act to Follow: War of the Worlds and the...
This week our From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years series begins ramping up for our big event, a listening party / social media experiment, in which we’re asking all of our fans...
View Article#WOTW75 — It’s Time for “War of the Worlds!”
Click here to stream our broadcast in your web browser from WHRW in Binghamton, New York, beginning at 7pm EST! Tweet along with us at #WOTW75 7:00-8:00 EST An all-new audio documentary hosted by Brian...
View ArticleFrom Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds and the Invasion of Media Studies...
Our #WOTW75 hijinx are behind us, dear listeners, but our series on the radio work of Orson Welles, From Mercury to Mars, continues with several posts stretching into the new year. This week, our...
View ArticleFrom Mercury to Mars: Jennifer Hyland Wang’s “After the Martians” from Antenna
“What I find so intriguing about the heated public discussion immediately following the War of the Worlds broadcast – in letters to the FCC and to Orson Welles, in newspaper pages, and in industry...
View ArticleSO! Thursday Stream Year in Re-Hear
The offer was, I confess, music to my ears. It was the around this time last year that Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Stoever and the SO! collective generously offered me the chance to come on board to help...
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