noise and the soundscape of American cinema culture /
Meredith C. Ward.
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2019]
x, 238 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm.
California studies in music, sound, and media ;
I
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : noise and the concept of the cinema soundscape -- Songs of the sonic body : noise and the sounds of early motion picture audiences -- The film industry lays the golden egg : noise, electro-acoustics, and the Academy's adjustment to film sound -- "Machines for listening" : cinema auditoriums as vehicles for aural absorption -- Cinema theaters as antiquated as "Edison and his wax cylinders" : mobile technologies and the negotiation of public noise -- Conclusion : noises we will be hearing soon.
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"Static in the System analyzes the relationship between American aural cultural history and cinema. Focusing specifically on the field of cinema culture--the envelope that surrounds and conditions our experience of cinema as an art form--Meredith C. Ward discusses how the aural culture of a given time period has enabled certain types of listening cultures to form. Analyzing which forms of listening have been dominant in various periods, she also discusses how noise--that commonly used but little-understood term--helps us to make sense of the ongoing conflicts underlying these moments, and where we have, historically, set the limits of 'desirable' and 'undesirable' sound"--Provided by publisher.