Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Volume 1 - Paperbackby Meredith C. Ward (Author) 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 sound was networked into a broader constellation of factors that affected social