Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience

McMurtry, LG ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9253-0954 2019, 'Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience' , Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 10 (1&2) .

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Abstract

At first glance, silent film and audio drama may appear antithetical modes of expression. Nevertheless, an interesting tradition of silent film-to-radio adapta-tions has emerged on BBC Radio Drama. Beyond this link between silent film and radio drama, other radio dramas have highlighted that Neil Brand, a successful silent film accompanist, radio dramatist and composer, links the silent film expe-rience and audio drama in two of his plays, Joanna and Waves Breaking on a Shore. Using theories of sound and narrative in film and radio, as well as discuss-ing the way radio in particular can stimulate the generation of imagery, this arti-cle examines layered points of view/audition as ways of linking the silent film experience and the use of sound within radio drama.

Item Type:	Article
Schools:	Schools > School of Arts & Media > Arts, Media and Communication Research Centre
Journal or Publication Title:	Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture
Publisher:	Intellect
ISSN:	1757-2681
Depositing User:	LG McMurtry
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2019 13:07
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2022 02:19
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/51763

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