Ilustrace zvukem: hrůza, neznámé, jiné a tajemné v rozhlasových Frankensteinech
| Title in English | Illustration by sound: horror, the unknown, the other and the mysterious in Radio Frankenstein |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Radio adaptations of classic literary horror films have a long tradition not only in the Czech Republic, since Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue was recorded in the Pilsen radio studio as early as 1945. An increase in interest and production of domestic radio horror can be observed after 1989, the imaginary highlight being last year's year-long project of Czech Radio Vltava, which devoted every Friday evening to horror stories. This paper will focus on two domestic and two British adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (BBC 1994, CRo 2005, BBC 4 2012, Needles Audiobooks 2016). The selected excerpts will trace the aesthetic experience of horror, terror and suspense through sound. A systematic comparison of verbal and non-verbal sound devices reveals not only the different creative approaches of different radio schools, but also culturally conditioned differences and consonances in understanding horror as an aesthetic category. The comparative analysis also shows how radio dramatisation differs from the audiobook, and to what extent we can think of sound as a kind of illustration or acoustic environment/context (soundscape). |
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