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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.

Motion picture audiences --- Motion picture theaters --- Noise. --- america. --- american culture. --- architectural acoustics. --- aural cultural history. --- avoidance of noise. --- built environment. --- cinema theatres. --- cinema. --- class. --- electro acoustics. --- film going culture. --- film sound. --- gender. --- history of noise. --- industry. --- listening cultures. --- mobile listening. --- motion picture history. --- movies. --- noise manifestations. --- sexuality. --- social power. --- sonic culture. --- sound theory. --- soundscape. --- theories of power. --- urban environment.