Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Static In The System Noise And The Soundscape Of American Cinema Culture
Author(s): Ward Dr. Meredith C.
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520299481
Pages: 256 Pages, 17 B-W Illus.
Publication Date: 3/5/2019
Series: California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media
Category: Media Studies