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Static in the System - Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture (Hardcover)
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Static in the System - Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture (Hardcover)
Series: California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media, 1
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In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture,
Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures
in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of
listening cultures to form across time. Connecting this history of
noise in the cinema to a greater sonic culture, Static in the
System shows how cinema sound was networked into a broader
constellation of factors that affected social power, gender,
sexuality, class, the built environment, and industry, and how
these factors in turn came to fruition in cinema's soundscape.
Focusing on theories of power as they manifest in noise, the
history of noise in electro-acoustics with the coming of film
sound, architectural acoustics as they were manipulated in cinema
theaters, and the role of the urban environment in affecting mobile
listening and the avoidance of noise, Ward analyzes the powerful
relationship between aural cultural history and cinema's sound
theory, proving that noise can become a powerful historiographic
tool for the film historian.
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