Narrative podcasting in an age of obsession / Neil Verma.
2024
PN4567.7 .V47 2024
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Title
Narrative podcasting in an age of obsession / Neil Verma.
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ISBN
9780472129881 electronic book
0472129880 electronic book
9780472075218 hardcover
9780472055210 paperback
0472129880 electronic book
9780472075218 hardcover
9780472055210 paperback
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.3998/mpub.11751593 doi
Call Number
PN4567.7 .V47 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4609
Summary
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 analytic 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 03, 2024).
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