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Title: Radio and the documentary imagination : thirty years of experiment, innovation and revelation
Related: Crisell, Andrew. Radio, p.207-219
Related: Critical concepts in media and cultural studies
Publisher: London : Routledge
Date: 2009
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200104 Media Studies 200212 Screen and Media Culture
Author/Creator: Madsen, Virginia M
Description: A renaissance occurred from the late 1960s in the art of documentary and ‘feature’ production in radio, especially from within the major public broadcasters of Europe. Surprisingly, the pioneering work of this little commented-upon groups of accomplished artisans finds its most immediate parallels not in radio but film culture, particularly in the auteur, nouvelle vague and cinéma-vérité movements of the time. The new acoustic documentary-feature ‘project’ suggests a radio ‘new wave’: a new art of ‘wild sound’ recording freed from script and studio, and make possible by the advent of portable recorders, microphones and a strong infusion of 1968 zeitgeist.
Subject Keyword: 200104 Media Studies
Subject Keyword: 200212 Screen and Media Culture
Subject Keyword: radio broadcasting
Subject Keyword: radio theory and history
Resource Type: book chapter
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Media

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