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Author : Alan Gallop
Publisher : Amberley Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1445602237
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.
Author : Alan Gallop
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781445612539
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.
Author : A. Brad Schwartz
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809031634
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.
Author : Meghan McCarthy
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780385736787
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
Author : Marion Carlson
Publisher : Author House
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496910424
A children's story about aboy and a dog who go for a walk and have a quite an adventure, or did they?
Author : Robert E. Bartholomew,Benjamin Radford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780786486717
History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers, radio, television and cyberspace. From the 1835 batmen on the Moon hoax to more recent bird flu scares and Hurricane Katrina myths, this book explores hoaxes that highlight the impact of the media on our lives and its tendency to sensationalize. Most of the hoaxes covered occurred in the United States, though incidents from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia are featured as well. Several are global in scope, revealing the power global media wields.
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451678192
The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504034562
The science fiction masterpiece of man versus alien that inspired generations, from Orson Welles’s classic radio play to the film starring Tom Cruise. At the turn of the twentieth century, few would believe that mankind is being watched from above. But millions of miles from Earth, the lords of the Red Planet prepare their armies for invasion, waiting for the moment to strike. When they land in the English countryside, baffled humans approach, waving white flags, and the Martians burn them to a crisp. The war has begun, and mankind doesn’t stand a chance. As Martian armies roll across England, one man fights to keep his family safe, risking his life—and his sanity—on the front lines of the greatest war in galactic history. H. G. Wells’s groundbreaking novel, adapted to radio and film, among other mediums, by visionary artists from Orson Welles to Steven Spielberg, remains one of the most chilling, unforgettable works of science fiction ever written. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Author : James Robinson
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302480202
Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch, has been driven mad by recent events - and now it's up to Namor to stop his rampage! And in England, Spitfire and Union Jack must face a different kind of Invader...one from another world! In 1917, several WWI heroes banded together to battle Martians -and now the invading aliens are back! As the Winter Soldier dispatched the all-new Invaders to help Spitfire, Tanalth the Pursuer seeks answers...and Toro emerges from his Inhuman cocoon with dangerous new powers! Can the all-new Captain America help him navigate his rebirth? Collecting All -New Invaders #11-15.
Author : Andy Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804139038
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?
Author : Robert Lowndes
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612106793
When the inebriated experimenters invited the Martians to come to Earth, they didn’t really mean it, but when the Martians took them at their word and sent a thousand armed ships. . . .
Author : Scott Washburn
Publisher : Winged Hussar Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780997094619
Following the defeat of the Martian invasion of Britain, a new threat to humanity lands in the American west. President Roosevelt musters the captains of industry and leading scientists to find a way to turn back the Martian tide
Author : Fredric Brown
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575102613
THEY WERE GREEN, THEY WERE LITTLE, THEY WERE BALD AS BILLIARD BALLS AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! Luke Devereaux was a science fiction writer, holed up in a desert shack waiting for inspiration. He was the first to see a Martian - but he certainly wasn't the last. It was estimated that one billion of them had arrived - one to every three human beings on Earth. Obnoxious green creatures who could be seen and heard (but not harmed) and who probed private sex lives as shamelessly as they exposed government secrets. No one knew why they had come. No one knew how to make them go away - except perhaps, Luke Devereaux. Unfortunately he was going slightly bananas, so it wouldn't be easy. But for a science fiction writer nothing was impossible...
Author : H G Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798564364812
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized 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
Author : Melissa Savage
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524700195
A boy and his best friends set out to find the aliens who crash-landed next to their Roswell, New Mexico, farm in this adventurous and heart-filled novel from the author of Lemons. Mylo never really believed in Martians, unless they had a starring role in one of his comic books. But then a flying saucer crash-lands next to his Roswell, New Mexico, ranch, and he starts to hear voices--like someone is asking for his help. With his best friend Dibs and crush Gracie by his side, and his Cracker Jack superhero membership card in his pocket, Mylo sets out on an epic adventure to investigate the crash and find the Martians. But he and his friends end up discovering more about the universe than they ever could have imagined. "Plenty of adventure and stinky-feet jokes."--Publishers Weekly