Radio and the documentary imagination: thirty years of experiment, innovation, and revelation

Virginia Madsen

Radio and the documentary imagination: thirty years of experiment, innovation, and revelation

Virginia Madsen

Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies

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Abstract

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 group of accomplished artisans finds its most immediate parallels not in radio but film culture, particularly in the auteur nouvelle vague and cin ma-v rit 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 made possible by the advent of portable recorders, microphones and a strong infusion of 68 zeitgeist.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Radio in the world
Subtitle of host publication	papers from the 2005 Melbourne Radio Conference
Editors	Sianan Healy, David Goodman, Bruce Berryman
Place of Publication	Melbourne
Publisher	RMIT Publishing
Pages	386-396
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	1921166126
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	Radio in the World (2005) - Melbourne Duration: 11 Jul 2005 → 14 Jul 2005

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Conference	Radio in the World (2005)
City	Melbourne
Period	11/07/05 → 14/07/05

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Radio and the documentary imagination : thirty years of experiment, innovation, and revelation. / Madsen, Virginia.

Radio in the world: papers from the 2005 Melbourne Radio Conference. ed. / Sianan Healy; David Goodman; Bruce Berryman. Melbourne : RMIT Publishing, 2005. p. 386-396.

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