Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture
Author:   Dr. Meredith C. Ward
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   1
ISBN:  

9780520299481


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 March 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Dr. Meredith C. Ward
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520299481


ISBN 10:   0520299485
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of 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

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Ward's book is one of the first in a generation to give us a new place to start when it comes to cinema sound - not by discarding the research of the past, but by resituating it in new conversations. * Journal of Sonic Studies *


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Meredith C. Ward is Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is also affiliated faculty for the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins. She is the author of articles on sound and media for Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film; Music, Sound, and the Moving Image; and the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening and the recipient of the 2016 Dissertation Award for outstanding contribution to the field of media studies from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).

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