Of all the writers to transition from pulp magazines to noir movies, Cornell Woolrich was by far the most prolific. The heyday of ‘classic’ Hollywood film noir saw not only seventeen films based on Woolrich properties but also over seventy radio dramas and a large number of television adaptations that would continue into the early 1960s. Drawing on a range of critical and archival materials, this article assesses Woolrich's contribution to radio drama in the classic noir era and explores several adaptations of his 1936 story ‘The Night Reveals’, one of the most popular selections on the acclaimed CBS anthology series Suspense (1942–62).

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Cornell Woolrich and Radio Noir

The Audiovisual Contract Projections of Sound on Image The Three Listening Modes Beyond Sounds and Images Lines and Points: Horizontal and Vertical Perspectives on Audiovisual Relations The Audiovisual Scene The Real and the Rendered Phantom Audio-Vision Sound Film--Worthy of the Name Television, Video Art, Music Video Toward an Audiologovisual Poetics Introduction to Audiovisual Analysis

Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

I. Mabuse: Magic and Powers of Acousmetre1. The Acousmetre2. The Silences of Mabuse3. The I-VoiceII. Tamaki: Tales of the Voice4. The Voice Connection5. The Screaming Point6. The Master of Voices7. The Mute Character's Final Words8. The Siren's SongIII. Norman Or The Impossible Anacousmetre9. The Voice that Seeks a Body10. The ConfessionEpilogue: Cinema's Voices of the 80's and 90's

The Voice in Cinema

The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space

Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922-1952

Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory. Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction and reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts and analysing radio broadcasts from America, Britain, Canada and Australia, the book explores the practicalities of producing drama for radio. Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has developed since the first 'audiophonic production' and evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins and immedate access to programmes on the Internet.

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Citations

Cornell Woolrich and Radio Noir

References

Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

The Voice in Cinema

The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space

Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922-1952

Radio drama : theory and practice