Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession by Verma, Neil
Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession by Verma, Neil

Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession

It has been a decade since Serial brought the narrative podcast to the center of popular culture....
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Author: Neil Verma
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Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession by Verma, Neil

Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession

$312.00
Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession by Verma, Neil

Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession

$312.00
Author: Neil Verma
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
It has been a decade since Serial brought the narrative podcast to the center of popular culture. In that time, there has been an enormous boom in the production of podcasts that tell stories, particularly in the fields of true crime, storytelling, history, and narrative fiction. Now that the initial glow around the medium has begun to fade, it is time to reevaluate the medium's technological, political, economic, and cultural rise, in particular what types of storytelling accompanied that rise.

Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession is the first book to look back on this prodigious body of material and attempt to make sense of it from a structural, historical, and analytical point of view. Focusing on more than 350 podcasts and other audio works released between Serial and the COVID pandemic, the book explores why so many of these podcasts seem "obsessed with obsession," why they focus not only on informing listeners but also dramatizing the labor that goes into it, and why fiction podcasts work so hard to prove they are a brand new form, even as they revive features of radio from decades gone by. This work also examines the industry's reckoning with its own implication in systemic racism, misogyny, and other forms of discrimination. Employing innovative new critical techniques for close listening--including pitch tracking software and spectrograms--Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession makes a major contribution to podcast studies and media studies more broadly.

Author: Neil Verma
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 06/03/2024
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780472075218

About the Author
Neil Verma is Assistant Professor of Sound Studies in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. His books include Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics and American Radio Drama (2012) and, as coeditor, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship (2020) and Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship (2016).
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