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Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Volume 1

Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Volume 1

Ward, Meredith C.

Hardcover

Series: California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media, Book 1

Film StudiesFilmmakingMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0520299477
ISBN13: 9780520299474
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 5 2019
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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