Static in the System

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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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
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Index