King Arthur and Robin Hood on the Radio - Adaptations for American Listeners

Before stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood were adapted and readapted for film, television and theater, radio scriptwriters looking for material turned to Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (1485) and Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883). Throughout the 1930s to the mid-1950s, their legends inspired storylines for Abbott and Costello, Popeye, Let's Pretend, Escape, Gunsmoke, The Adventures of Superman and others. Many of these adaptations reflect the moral and ethical questions of the day, as characters' faced issues of gender relations, divorce, citizenship, fascism, crime and communism in a medieval setting.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Prologue: When Radio Filled the Ether with "Winged Words"

1.¿Radio and the Formation of the Imagined Community

2.¿Adapting King Arthur and Robin Hood's Legend for Radio

3.¿What Is Radio Medievalism?

4.¿Adapting Malory's Le Morte Darthur for Radio

5.¿The Chivalric Ethos of the Comic Hero: Superman and Prince Valiant

6.¿White Knight of the Range: The Arthurian Knight in the Radio Western

7.¿Radio Adaptations of Robin Hood

8.¿Lighthearted Adaptations

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Katherine Barnes Echols teaches at Texas A&M University at Galveston. Her areas of interest include adaptation theory and American radio productions from the 1930s through the 1950s as cultural artifacts.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Barnes Echols
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2017
• EAN: 9781476667041
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6704-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Radio, DRAMA / Anthologies (multiple authors), PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / History & Criticism, Radio / Podcasts, History of Performing Arts