TY - BOOK ID - 69569218 TI - Static in the system : noise and the soundscape of American cinema culture AU - Ward, Meredith C. AU - University of California Press PY - 2019 SN - 9780520299474 9780520299481 PB - Oakland University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Motion picture theaters KW - Noise. KW - Motion picture audiences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69569218 AB - 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. ER -