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Norman Corwin's One World Flight

Norman Corwin's One World Flight
Author: Norman Corwin
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0826434118

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Chiefly the transcript of the CBS thirteen-part radio series, One world flight, that first aired in January,1947; provides a perspective of Corwin's travels to 37 countries in 1946, in the immediate post-World War era.


Norman Corwin

Norman Corwin
Author: Wayne Soini
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2021-09-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476686416

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Called "The Poet Laureate of Radio" by critics, Norman Corwin was the top writer at CBS when CBS reigned supreme in radio, and when radio itself dominated public attention. This biography tells the story of Norman's unlikely rise from a triple-decker tenement on Bremen Street in East Boston to the top rung of radio writers during the Golden Age of Radio. A self-taught writer who never graduated from high school, he learned what audiences craved, and he gave it to them. His nuanced "theater of the mind" dramas, tender love stories, and witty comedies were hits talked about long after they were broadcast, and, when his scripts were published, became bestsellers. The week after Pearl Harbor, Norman's show "We Hold These Truths" was broadcast to the largest radio audience ever. His V-E Day broadcast on May 8, 1945, "On a Note of Triumph," made a similarly enduring mark and still constitutes the gold standard for wartime drama.


Trivializing America

Trivializing America
Author: Norman Corwin
Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1986
Genre: Arts and society
ISBN:

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Anatomy of Sound

Anatomy of Sound
Author: Jacob Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016-07-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520285328

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"This collection of essays examines one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time--Norman Corwin--using him as a critical lens to consider the history of multimedia authorship, particularly in the realm of sound. Known for seven decades as the 'poet laureate' of radio, Corwin is most famous for his radio dramas, which reached tens of millions of listeners around the world and contributed to radio drama's success as a mass media form in the 1930s and 1940s. But Corwin was a pioneer in multiple media, including cinema, theater, TV, public service broadcasting, journalism, and even cantata. In each of these areas, Corwin had a distinctive approach to sonic aesthetics and mastery of multiple aspects of media production, relying in part on his inventive atmospheric effects in the studio both prerecorded, and, more impressively, live in real time. From the front lines of World War II to his role as Chief of Special Projects for United Nations Radio and his influence on media today, the political and social aspect of Corwin's work is woven into these essays. With a foreword by Michele Hilmes and contributions from Thomas Doherty, Mary Ann Watson, Shawn VanCour, David Ossman and others, this volume cements Corwin's reputation as perhaps the greatest writer in the history of radio, while also showing that his long career is a neglected model of multimedia authorship."--Provided by publisher.


Memos to a New Millennium

Memos to a New Millennium
Author: Norman Corwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Radio plays
ISBN: 9781593936921

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Memos to a New Millennium: The Final Radio Plays of Norman Corwin presents, for the first time ever in print, a treasure-trove of radio plays spanning fifty years in the extraordinary career of radio's most famous dramatist. Subject matter for Corwin's radio plays varied greatly. He was equally at ease writing light comedy replete with mischievous rhymes as he was in crafting history lessons that although written with poetic language, strike hard and fast, delivering their import with expert efficiency. Be it universal human rights, the power of prayer, the atomic bomb, the origins of a national holiday, the birth of the Statue of Liberty, the meaning of democracy and freedom in America, the struggle between science and magic in our world, or an earnest memo to the Third Millennium, Norman Corwin tackled it all with poise, humor, and, above all, conviction. Beginning with Citizen of the World, his final production for the CBS Radio Network in July 1949, through his Peabody Award-winning years at United Nations Radio, and culminating with his National Public Radio series finale, Memos to a New Millennium broadcast on December 31, 1999, this book covers the last half of the twentieth century as only Norman Corwin could.


Theater of the Mind

Theater of the Mind
Author: Neil Verma
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-06-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0226853527

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For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.


Selected Radio Plays

Selected Radio Plays
Author: Norman L. Corwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 1944
Genre:
ISBN:

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Quality Questioning

Quality Questioning
Author: Jackie Acree Walsh
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004-10-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483334090

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Use effective questions to advance student thinking, learning, and achievement! Authors Walsh and Sattes provide an in-depth look at how quality questions can transform classrooms. Drawing on two decades of research on teacher effectiveness, the authors offer strategies that engage all students in the teacher’s questions and prompt students to generate their own questions. Quality Questioning includes: A complete framework for preparing and presenting questions, prompting and processing student responses, teaching students to generate questions, and reflecting on questioning practice Checklists for classroom applications Reproducibles, rubrics, resources, evaluation tools, and more


Radio Utopia

Radio Utopia
Author: Matthew C. Ehrlich
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0252093003

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As World War II drew to a close and radio news was popularized through overseas broadcasting, journalists and dramatists began to build upon the unprecedented success of war reporting on the radio by creating audio documentaries. Focusing particularly on the work of radio luminaries such as Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly, Norman Corwin, and Erik Barnouw, Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest traces this crucial phase in American radio history, significant not only for its timing immediately before television, but also because it bridges the gap between the end of the World Wars and the beginning of the Cold War. Matthew C. Ehrlich closely examines the production of audio documentaries disseminated by major American commercial broadcast networks CBS, NBC, and ABC from 1945 to 1951. Audio documentary programs educated Americans about juvenile delinquency, slums, race relations, venereal disease, atomic energy, arms control, and other issues of public interest, but they typically stopped short of calling for radical change. Drawing on rare recordings and scripts, Ehrlich traces a crucial phase in the evolution of news documentary, as docudramas featuring actors were supplanted by reality-based programs that took advantage of new recording technology. Paralleling that shift from drama to realism was a shift in liberal thought from dreams of world peace to uneasy adjustments to a cold war mentality. Influenced by corporate competition and government regulations, radio programming reflected shifts in a range of political thought that included pacifism, liberalism, and McCarthyism. In showing how programming highlighted contradictions within journalism and documentary, Radio Utopia reveals radio's response to the political, economic, and cultural upheaval of the post-war era.


Norman Corwin's Letters

Norman Corwin's Letters
Author: Norman Corwin
Publisher: Barricade Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 9780962303258

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"From this warm, personal collection of letters spanning more than sixty years, the reader discovers Corwin's versatility and humanity- as writer of poems, plays, books, essays, scripts for radio, stage, television, and movies; director, producer, composer, librettist; father, son, husband, brother, friend; reporter, teacher, lecturer; and author-producer-director of huge documentaries"--from front jacket flap.