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From Mercury to Mars: After the Martians: The Invasion of “Daytime” in the War of the Worlds Controversy

January 20, 2014
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From Mercury to Mars: After the Martians: The Invasion of “Daytime” in the War of the Worlds Controversy

In this final post in our series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Jennifer Hyland Wang analyzes how responses to the War of the Worlds broadcast exposed much of the gender and class discourses underpinning the American Broadcasting system.
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From Mercury to Mars: Vox Orson

January 16, 2014
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From Mercury to Mars: Vox Orson

The From Mercury to Mars series continues today with a new post from Murray Pomerance about Orson Welles' voice.
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From Mercury to Mars: The Shadow of the Great Detective: Orson Welles and Sherlock Holmes on the Air

January 10, 2014
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From Mercury to Mars: The Shadow of the Great Detective: Orson Welles and Sherlock Holmes on the Air

The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues on into the new year with a post on Sounding Out! from A. Brad Schwartz about the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories on Orson Welles' radio work.
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From Mercury to Mars: The Legacy of War of the Worlds: What Happened Here?

December 16, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: The Legacy of <i>War of the Worlds</i>: What Happened Here?

In this latest post in our ongoing series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Michele Hilmes ponders the relative absence of innovation in American radio drama over the past three decades.
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From Mercury to Mars: Devil’s Symphony: Orson Welles’ “Hell on Ice” as Eco-Sonic Critique

December 2, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: Devil’s Symphony: Orson Welles’ “Hell on Ice” as Eco-Sonic Critique

The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues today with a new post on Sounding Out! from Jacob Smith about the Mercury Theatre's 1938 radio play "Hell On Ice" as a proto-environmental critique that is as relevant today as it was 75 years ago.
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From Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds and the Invasion of Media Studies

November 11, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: <i>War of the Worlds</i> and the Invasion of Media Studies

In this latest post in our From Mercury to Mars series, Josh Shepperd discusses the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a foundational subject for intellectual history and, as the subject of social research like Hadley Cantril's The Invasion from Mars, one of the events that legitimated the very study of media.
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#WOTW75 — It’s Time for “War of the Worlds”!

October 30, 2013
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#WOTW75 — It’s Time for “War of the Worlds”!

A full rundown of all the information you'll need to know to participate in tonight's #WOTW75 collective listening experiment, commemorating the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles' and the Mercury Theatre's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
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The #WOTW75 Experiment

October 26, 2013
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The #WOTW75 Experiment

Prepare yourself for the #WOTW75 invasion. Find out details here about the "War of the Worlds" worldwide collective listening experiment that is taking place on Wednesday, October 30th.
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From Mercury to Mars: A Hard Act to Follow: War of the Worlds and the Challenges of Literary Adaptation

October 14, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: A Hard Act to Follow: <i>War of the Worlds</i> and the Challenges of Literary Adaptation

Understanding "War of the Worlds"’s neglected second act requires consideration of the contested status of character monologue and larger shifts in dominant production norms for Golden Age radio drama.
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From Mercury to Mars: “Welles,” Belles, and Fred Allen’s Sonic Pranks

October 1, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: “Welles,” Belles, and Fred Allen’s Sonic Pranks

The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues with a new post from Kathleen Battles about Fred Allen's parodies of Welles.
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From Mercury to Mars: Why Teach War of the Worlds

September 17, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: Why Teach <i>War of the Worlds</i>

In this latest installment of the Antenna-Sounding Out! continuing series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Cynthia Meyers reflects on teaching the Mercury Theater's 1938 broadcast to 21st century undergraduate students.
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From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles’s Dracula

September 3, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles’s <i>Dracula</i>

The Antenna-Sounding Out! ongoing series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues with a new post from Debra Rae Cohen on the inaugural broadcast of the original Mercury series, Welles’s fascinating version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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From Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds as Residual Radio

August 15, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: <i>War of the Worlds</i> as Residual Radio

In Antenna's first post in the From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years collaborative series with Sounding Out!, Eleanor Patterson explores how it is that we are still listening to the 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" 75 years later, and in what ways its discursive and material...
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From Mercury to Mars: Introducing Antenna’s New Radio Studies Series

August 9, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: Introducing Antenna’s New Radio Studies Series

Antenna is pleased to announce the launch of a 12-part, 6-month long series entitled From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years. A partnership between Antenna and Sounding Out!, the series is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the "War of the Worlds" broadcast this October by offering a range of critical...
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