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Abstract
This essay is a study of The Shadows (2018), a series produced by Kaitlin Prest and Phoebe Wang for CBC Podcasts. I situate the work in the framework of Prest’s career after her podcast The Heart, and argue that The Shadows crystallises a set of conventions about “audio fiction” that set it apart from “audio drama,” “radio features” and other similar forms, at least at this particular historical moment. These conventions include: the embrace of naive themes; a preference for retroversion or 'queer temporality'; a focus on body sound; multiplication in mixing and editing that comes across as a multiplication of voice and consciousness; the prominence of inanimate objects as orienters; and an aesthetic of suspended poignance.
Recommended Citation
Verma, Neil, Pillow, Talk: Kaitlin Prest’s The Shadows and the Elements of Modern Audio Fiction, RadioDoc Review, 4(1), 2018.Included in
Audio Arts and Acoustics Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Radio Commons
