Comparative Media Studies Lecture RICK ALTMAN Monday March 15, 1999 5:00 pm MIT Room 4-237   "Film Sound--All of It" Altman proposes to broaden the range of sounds attended to by film and media scholars. Tracing a five-century-long history of theater audience sounds, Altman notes that most film exhibition practices have carefully squelched audience noise, along with apparatus and advertising noise. The stakes and consequences of this process are noted and compared to the quite different role of (what we think of as) ancillary sounds in other media. Free and Open to the Public

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