Analyzes cinema sound as a site of social power and cultural identity for deeper historical insight
Connects film history to broader sonic and architectural cultural studies for interdisciplinary understanding
Focuses on noise as a historiographic tool to reveal overlooked fissures in American motion picture history
Draws on theories of power and urban environment to explain how noise shapes listening cultures
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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
