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The Panic Broadcast of 1938

Author : Michael Druce
Publisher : Samuel French Incorporated Plays
ISBN 13 : 9780874403053
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Panic Broadcast of 1938 written by Michael Druce and published by Samuel French Incorporated Plays. This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5m, 9f, + extras, flexible casting / Comedy, High School/ Community Theatre / Unit set Panic Broadcast of 1938 is the story of some bold teenagers and one crazy, confusing night! It is 8 p.m., Sunday, October 30, 1938 -- the night before Halloween in Misty Valley, Pennsylvania. Two optimistic and wide-eyed young women, Margie and June, are waiting in the park for June s boyfriend, Andy, to get off work. Both teens have dilemmas: Margie wants to leave town and June doesn t know if she should kiss Andy. The girls soon meet Tom and Hank, two dashing young men from a circus train that has pulled into Misty Valley for a water stop. Tom and Margie take an immediate liking to each other, but things are complication when Margie s dad, who happens to be the local sheriff, throws the two men in jail for a robbery! Meanwhile, Orson Welles radio production of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds has started its broadcast over the town radio. As word of the alien invasion makes its way to Misty Valley, panic ensues! Widow O Dell s prized Holstein is shot dead, Tom and Hank are accused of being Martians, the circus elephant escapes, an alien tripod is seen at the train station, and a giant Martian destroys the jailhouse and the feed store. What will happen to Tom and Margie? Will Hank find love? Will June ever kiss Andy?! A perfect (panicked!) comedy for high schools and any theatrical groups looking for a fun time!"

Broadcast Hysteria

Author : A. Brad Schwartz
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 0809031639
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Broadcast Hysteria written by A. Brad Schwartz and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call the police. Some even fled their homes. But the hair-raising broadcast was not a real news bulletin-it was Orson Welles's adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds. In Broadcast Hysteria, A. Brad Schwartz boldly retells the story of Welles's famed radio play and its impact. Did it really spawn a "wave of mass hysteria," as The New York Times reported? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent to Orson Welles himself in the days after the broadcast, and his findings challenge the conventional wisdom. Few listeners believed an actual attack was under way. But even so, Schwartz shows that Welles's broadcast became a major scandal, prompting a different kind of mass panic as Americans debated the bewitching power of the radio and the country's vulnerability in a time of crisis. When the debate was over, American broadcasting had changed for good, but not for the better. As Schwartz tells this story, we observe how an atmosphere of natural disaster and impending war permitted broadcasters to create shared live national experiences for the first time. We follow Orson Welles's rise to fame and watch his manic energy and artistic genius at work in the play's hurried yet innovative production. And we trace the present-day popularity of "fake news" back to its source in Welles's show and its many imitators. Schwartz's original research, gifted storytelling, and thoughtful analysis make Broadcast Hysteria a groundbreaking new look at a crucial but little-understood episode in American history.

The Panic Broadcast of 1938

Author : Michael Druce
Publisher : Samuel French Incorporated Plays
ISBN 13 : 9780874403053
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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The War of the Worlds Illustrated

Author : H G Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The War of the Worlds Illustrated written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.

The Martians are Coming!

Author : Alan Gallop
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612534
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Martians are Coming! written by Alan Gallop and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orson Welles' 1938 radio production of The War of the Worlds is now remembered as one of the most sublime, if accidental. hoaxes ever concocted. This is what really happened.

The War of the Worlds

Author : H G Wells
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781095577714
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book The War of the Worlds written by H G Wells and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. The 1938 radio broadcast caused public outcry against the episode, as many listeners believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress, a notable example of mass hysteria.

Spooked!

Author : Gail Jarrow
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 1684371430
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Spooked! written by Gail Jarrow and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Children's Book This book for young readers explores in riveting detail the false panic created by the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938—as well as the repercussions of "fake news" today. On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of Americans panicked when they believed that Martians had invaded Earth. What appeared to be breaking news about an alien invasion was in fact a radio drama based on H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, performed by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre players. Some listeners became angry once they realized they had been tricked, and the reaction to the broadcast sparked a national discussion about fake news, propaganda, and the role of radio. In this compelling nonfiction chapter book, Gail Jarrow explores the production of the broadcast, the aftermath, and the concept of "fake news" in the media.

Waging The War of the Worlds

Author : John Gosling
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786441051
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Waging The War of the Worlds written by John Gosling and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of The War of the Worlds was a landmark in the history of entertainment, sparking public hysteria in America and a series of broadcasts around the world that elicited similar responses. This book examines all aspects of the historic broadcast in depth, including fascination with Mars, H.G. Wells' novel, Orson Welles and the making of the broadcast, initial reactions and the resulting "fog of war," anxieties underlying the panic, and the aftermath. Additional chapters look at later broadcasts in the United States, Brazil, elsewhere in Latin America, and Portugal, and address the likelihood that a similar panic could happen again. The Howard Koch original script of the 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast is included.

The Invasion from Mars

Author : Hadley Cantril
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691613970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Invasion from Mars written by Hadley Cantril and published by . This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadley Cantril's study was launched immediately after the broadcast to give an account of people's reactions and an answer to the question, Why the panic? Originally published by Princeton University Press in 1940, the book explores the latent anxieties that lead to mass hysteria. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Aliens are Coming!

Author : Meghan McCarthy
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0385736789
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Aliens are Coming! written by Meghan McCarthy and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture-book account of one of the most famous pieces of radio history! * “Sandwiched between a look at Depression-era radios and a set of fanciful period advertisements, McCarthy delivers a semi-serious account of the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, illustrating both passages from the script and briefly told descriptions of widespread panic with smudgy cartoon scenes featuring bug-eyed monsters and equally bug-eyed people. The author closes with a substantial note that analyzes the broadcast’ immediate and long-term effects, points out that the announcers repeatedly admitted that they were presenting a drama during the broadcast, mentions several later revivals here and internationally and notes the response of H.G. Wells himself to the original production. She has also set up an invitingly designed Web site with an array of relevant links.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred An ALA–ALSC Notable Children’s Book A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year An IRA–CBC Children’s Choice A Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice A 2006 New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing

“The” war of the world

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book “The” war of the world written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Panic Diaries

Author : Jackie Orr
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387360
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Panic Diaries written by Jackie Orr and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its “cures” in the twentieth-century United States: from the mass hysteria following the 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds to an individual woman swallowing a pill to control the “panic disorder” officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. Against a backdrop of Cold War anxieties over atomic attack, Orr highlights the entanglements of knowledge and power in efforts to reconceive panic and its prevention as problems in communication and information feedback. Throughout, she reveals the shifting techniques of power and social engineering underlying the ways that scientific and social scientific discourses—including crowd psychology, Cold War cybernetics, and contemporary psychiatry—have rendered panic an object of technoscientific management. Orr, who has experienced panic attacks herself, kept a diary of her participation as a research subject in clinical trials for the Upjohn Company’s anti-anxiety drug Xanax. This “panic diary” grounds her study and suggests the complexity of her desire to track the diffusion and regulation of panic in U.S. society. Orr’s historical research, theoretical reflections, and biographical narrative combine in this remarkable and compelling genealogy, which documents the manipulation of panic by the media, the social sciences and psychiatry, the U.S. military and government, and transnational drug companies.

The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945

Author : Ilana Fritz Offenberger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319493582
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945 written by Ilana Fritz Offenberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938. Who were Vienna’s Jews, how did they react and respond to Nazism, and why? Drawing upon the voices of the individuals and families who lived during this time, together with new archival documentation, Ilana Offenberger reconstructs the daily lives of Vienna’s Jews from Anschluss in March 1938 through the entire Nazi occupation and the eventual dissolution of the Jewish community of Vienna. Offenberger explains how and why over two-thirds of the Jewish community emigrated from the country, while one-third remained trapped. A vivid picture emerges of the co-dependent relationship this community developed with their German masters, and the false hope they maintained until the bitter end. The Germans murdered close to one third of Vienna’s Jewish population in the “final solution” and their family members who escaped the Reich before 1941 chose never to return; they remained dispersed across the world. This is not a triumphant history. Although the overwhelming majority survived the Holocaust, the Jewish community that once existed was destroyed.

Johnny Got His Gun

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806537604
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Johnny Got His Gun written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review

The Annotated War of the Worlds

Author : Howard Koch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Annotated War of the Worlds written by Howard Koch and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Media Audiences

Author : John L. Sullivan
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506397387
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Media Audiences written by John L. Sullivan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we are watching TV, surfing the Internet, listening to our iPods, or reading a novel, we all engage with media as an audience. . Despite the widespread use of this term in our popular culture, the meaning of "audience" is complex, and it has undergone significant historical shifts as new forms of mediated communication have developed from print, telegraphy, and radio to film, television, and the Internet. Media Audiences: Effects, Users, Institutions, and Power 2nd Edition explores the concept of media audiences from four broad perspectives: as "victims" of mass media, as market constructions and commodities, as users of media, and as producers and subcultures of mass media. The goal of the text is for students to be able to think critically about the role and status of media audiences in contemporary society, reflecting on their relative power in relation to institutional media producers.

Culture and Panic Disorder

Author : Devon E. Hinton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804771111
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Panic Disorder written by Devon E. Hinton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatric classifications created in one culture may not be as universal as we assume, and it is difficult to determine the validity of a classification even in the culture in which it was created. Culture and Panic Disorder explores how the psychiatric classification of panic disorder first emerged, how medical theories of this disorder have shifted through time, and whether or not panic disorder can actually be diagnosed across cultures. In this breakthrough volume a distinguished group of medical and psychological anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians of science provide ethnographic insights as they investigate the presentation and generation of panic disorder in various cultures. The first available work with a focus on the historical and cross-cultural aspects of panic disorders, this book presents a fresh opportunity to reevaluate Western theories of panic that were formerly taken for granted.