| Description |
x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
California studies in music, sound, and media ; I |
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California studies in music, sound, and media ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Motion picture theaters -- United States.
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Noise.
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Motion picture audiences -- United States.
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Motion picture audiences. (OCoLC)fst01027116
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Motion picture theaters. (OCoLC)fst01027261
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Noise. (OCoLC)fst01038354
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
9780520299474 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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0520299477 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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9780520299481 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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0520299485 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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9780520971196 (ebook) |
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