Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture
- Author: Ward, Meredith C.
Static in the System will provide many scholars in both Film Studies and Sound Studies fresh understandings for the many convergences between cinema culture and historical concepts of noise —
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Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Noise and the Concept of
- the Cinema Soundscape
- 1. Songs of the Sonic Body: Noise and the Sounds of
- Early Motion Picture Audiences
- 2. The Film Industry Lays the Golden Egg: Noise,
- Electro-Acoustics, and the Academy's Adjustment
- to Film Sound
- 3. "Machines for Listening": Cinema Auditoriums as
- Vehicles for Aural Absorption
- 4. 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
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
