The American Broadcast My Lobotomy as an Example of a Radio Feature in the West

• Authors: Kowalska, Natalia

Abstracts

EN

This article consists of two parts. In the first one, I analyse relations between a reportage and a feature. Differences can be found in the way these notions are defined by scholars in Poland and in Western Europe. Polish radio documentaries are based on authenticity, while in a feature the truth intermingles with fiction. My Lobotomy, by David Isay and Piya Kochhar, serves as an example of a work which presents both authentic characters and some fictional elements. In the second part of the article I focused on the analysis of this American feature. As far as I am concerned, what makes the work most interesting is the relationship between the protagonist’s authentic and spontaneous reactions and the read out narrative sequences.

Keywords

EN

radio; feature; radio documentary

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 5

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Kowalska, Natalia

other

The University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Department of Journalism and Public Communication

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21386

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.35.12