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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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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Some thoughts on the current state of qualitative radio scholarship, plus a line-up of radio studies related papers, panels, and events at this year's SCMS conference.
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As more media scholars grapple with issues traditionally associated with aesthetic analysis, the need to map the history, methods, and goals of this “aesthetic turn” proves increasingly pressing.
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