Contemporary British and Italian Sound Docudrama: Traditions and Innovations

Author:   Sabina Macchiavelli
Publisher:   Intellect
Edition:   New edition
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9781789387254


Pages:   238
Publication Date:   09 June 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Contemporary British and Italian Sound Docudrama: Traditions and Innovations


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Explores the last thirty years of radio docufiction in Italy and the United Kingdom.   Located at the crossroads of fact and invention, docudrama constitutes a rich field of investigation for media studies. Despite the hybrid nature of this subject and a recent boom in podcasting, scholars have mainly concentrated on film rather than audio docufiction. Sabina Macchiavelli remedies this with an analysis of Italian and British docudramas that explores the ambiguities of this form, looking at their structure and form, as well as the type of understanding they convey. She investigates the ways that sound effects, music, recorded events, voices, and silence can work to fictionalize audio productions that sit somewhere between journalism and fully dramatized readings or plays. This interplay between fact, fiction, and sound subverts accepted knowledge and produces an alternative view of personal and historical matters, one that may complement or complicate the accepted version of the truth. Macchiavelli builds her case with studies from the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Radio Audizioni Italiane, tracing parallels and divergences within their programming to dig into the docudrama’s paradoxical nature and the ambiguities it yields.

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Author:   Sabina Macchiavelli
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781789387254


ISBN 10:   1789387256
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   09 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Introduction  Preface 1. The Formation of Trends in Radio Docudrama: Case Studies from Italy between Documentary Urge and Postmodern Paradoxes 2. The Development of Continuities in Radio Documentary: Ideology, Biography and Collective Creation in British Programmes 3. The Warping Action of Sound on Facts in BBC Broadcasts: Documentary Intent and Fictional Deviations 4. Modalities of Sound’s Action in Italian Productions: The Bellaria Film Festival 5. Storytelling, Narration and Symbolic Resonances in Docudrama Notes  Bibliography

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Sabina Macchiavelli has a Ph.D in creative industries, University of South Wales, UK. She is an author, a teacher and an independent researcher in the study area of contemporary radio docufiction.

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