• Acknowledgements Preface Introduction
• Chapter 1: A Theory of Masterful Stories
• Chapter 2: Golden Age Radio Plays: Examining
• 120 Case Studies
• Chapter 3: Radio's Earliest Plays: Inventing the Medium's Storytelling Form in the 1920s and 1930s
• Chapter 4: Radio Hits its Dramatic Stride: The Early 1940s
• Chapter 5: Classics Continued Post WWII: From the Mid to Late 1940s
• Chapter 6: Post-WWII Radio Drama: Early to Mid 1950s
• Chapter 7: End of an Era: Exemplary Plays from the 1950s and Beyond
• Chapter 8: Concluding Reflections on Stories from Golden Age Radio.
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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 modern 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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138693395 20170907

• Exact reproduction of Stan Laurel's personal script of Getting a driving license.
• Laurel & Hardy go to war photo gallery.
• Laurel & Hardy in Denmark / Peter Mikkelsen & Ziggy M. Sonette.
• Laurel & Hardy in Denmark photo gallery.
• Stan Laurel's Copenhagen scrapbook.

• Foreword by Will Hutchins
• Preface
• The programs
• Appendix 1: Series with insufficient data to classify or describe
• Appendix 2: Time line of western programs
• Appendix 3: Western programs on mainstream radio
• Appendix 4: Sources for audio copies of western programs
• Appendix 5: sources for scripts of western programs.

This is a comprehensive encyclopedia to the more than 100 radio programs portraying the American West, in fact and fiction, to generations of listeners from the Great Depression through the Cold War era. Both the popular and lesser known series, as well as would-be offerings that never made it past the audition stage, are included. Each entry describes the series, the extent to which it was based on actual facts, the audience it was written for, and its broadcast history. The descriptions also examine how the programs reflected society's changing social and cultural attitudes towards racial and ethnic minorities and the role of women. The availability of surviving audio copies and original scripts is noted. An extensive bibliography and several appendices provide additional sources of information about Western programming during the Golden Age of Radio.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780786471461 20160612

[This work includes discussions of the history of sound effects, the different types of sound effects, creating sound effects from scratch, recording sounds in the studio and field, the advantages of live sounds over tape, knowing why and when to use sound effects, the difference between radio, TV and film sounds, Foleying and the Foley stage, and recording and editing equipment.].
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• Introduction
• Format of episode entries
• Episode guide
• Appendix A: cast members
• Appendix B: Gildersleeve in film and on television
• Appendix C: Alphabetical list of episodes
• Appendix D: notable occurrences
• Appendix E: ratings and rankings summary.

"This guide to over 500 recorded episodes of The Great Gildersleeve and to the scripts of 46 episodes for which no recordings exist gives background on the development of the program and appendices list episodes as well as provide information about cast members, notable occurrences on the program, ratings, and the films and TV series"--Provided by publisher.
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• The Lautarchiv of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Jürgen-Kornelius Mahrenholz
• Troops of Estonian origin among Russian prisoners of war in Germany in 1914-1918 / Reinhard Nachtigal
• On Estonian recordings made in German prisoner-of-war camps during World War I / Jaan Ross
• Prisoners of war as language informants : observations of two archivist/historians / Aadu Must and Kadri Tooming
• Acoustic features of quantity in early recordings of Estonian / Pärtel Lippus
• Dialectal features in recordings of Estonian speech in the Berlin archives / Karl Pajusalu
• Recordings of Bible texts in South Estonian: observations of a translation historian / Kristiina Ross
• Observations on tales of folkloric or literary origin appearing in the Berlin recordings of Estonian speech / Arvo Krikmann
• Recordings of songs by Estonian prisoners of war : repertoire and its representations / Janika Oras
• Appendix I : Estonian informants recorded in the German prisoner-of-war camps in 1916-1918
• Appendix II : sound recordings reproduced on CD
• Appendix III : the authors and their affiliations
• Abbreviations
• Name and subject index.

• Bandes originales et musiques de films
• Séries télévisées "Maigret" en Grande-Bretagne
• Séries télévisées "Maigret" en Italie
• Séries télévisées "Maigret" divers en pays
• Théâtre
• Georges Simenon parle
• Divers.

• v. 1. Introductions, how to use, entries 1-28040 (A-R)
• v. 2. Entries 28041-35976 (S-Z), appendices, bibliography, indexes.

This revised, expanded and corrected edition offers even more coverage of the performers and programming on American radio from its inception to its golden age. This work is the definitive source for scholars of communication, social and cultural history and the popular arts, as well as devoted fans of radio history.New entries include information on such fascinating topics as gender discrimination in radio; holidays on the airwaves; husband and wife teams; minstrel shows, vaudeville, and burlesque; Scopes "monkey" trial broadcasts; and super heroes.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780786429424 20160528

• pt.
• 1. From music to story. Bibliographic overview
• "Jazz" fiction sans music
• Fiction for juveniles and young adults
• Women
• Works based on the lives of actual musicians
• Fantasy and science fiction
• Mystery and crime
• Immigrant and international
• For further reading
• pt.
• 2. Jazz fiction by select categories. pt.
• 3. Jazz fiction short-lists. pt.
• 4. Annotated bibliography of jazz fiction.

Jazz Fiction traces the history of jazz stories and novels from the beginning to the present and provides discussions of several persistent topics and genres within this history. Most centrally, it offers nearly 700 annotations of individual works of jazz fiction.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780810859074 20160528

This work celebrates the men and women who graced the American airwaves. Included are the likes of Mary Margaret McBride (dubbed the Oprah Winfrey of the pre-TV generation and the female Arthur Godfrey), Stefan Hatos (writer of "The Green Hornet", 1940-1941, and producer-director of "The Curt Massey Show", 1956), Will Rogers (actor in "Boys Will Be Boys", 1921, and "A Connecticut Yankee", 1931), Henry William Stern (interviewer of such luminaries as Jack Benny and Babe Ruth), and Dick Wesson (announcer for "Hollywood Open House", 1947-1948, and "Space Patrol", in the early to mid - 1950s.) This exhaustive reference guide covers the 1,160 performers who filled the strategic roles of the voices of radio. The text is alphabetically arranged and features most of the prominent air-life "speakers." Most of the people within these pages haven't been profiled in other works. Each entry includes radio programs; the personality's specific assignments (e.g., actor, newscaster, writer, etc.); years or approximate years of the personality's service; birth dates and locations (when available) and death dates and locations.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780786427802 20160528

In the early days of radio, there were employment opportunities for women as singers, musicians, actors, and hosts of women's interest shows, but few opportunities for them to do much more, not to mention host their own music or comedy programs. Vaughan deLeith, the "Original Radio Girl, " was one of the first women to break into radio and pave the way for others to follow. It is estimated than from 1920 to 1936, deLeith received three million pieces of fan mail, wrote more than 200 published songs, made more than 300 phonograph records and Edison cylinders, and sang 15,000 songs on the air. The women who worked in and on radio in its four greatest decades are given their due in this comprehensive work. Readers will find Bertha Brainard, Judith Waller, Jessica Dragonette, Kate Smith, the Boswell Sisters, the Andrews Sisters, the Carter Sisters, Wilma Lee Cooper, Kitty Wells, Gracie Allen, and Minnie Pearl, among many, many other women who were on the radio. Nine extended entries cover pioneers, Mary Garden and Chicago radio, singers, country musicians, comediennes, husband-and-wife talk shows, women in daytime serials (soap operas), family values, and gender discrimination facing women in radio.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780786414765 20160528

This work covers nearly 300 syndicated radio mystery and adventure serials that aired in the early or middle twentieth century. To be included in the book, a series must have included one or more characters who regularly appeared in occupations or avocations that fought against espionage, theft, murder, and other criminal activities. Each entry includes the name of the series, air dates (stations and times are noted), the sponsor, extant episodes, cast information (such as the directors, writers, composers, announcers, lead actors and supporting actors), and a brief synopsis.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780786413904 20160528