Our centuries-long quest for 'a quiet place'
- Written by Matthew Jordan, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pennsylvania State University
A lithograph by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville depicts the torture of too much noise.Bibliothèque nationale de FranceThe new film “A Quiet Place” is an edge-of-your-seat tale about a family struggling to avoid being heard by monsters with hypersensitive ears. Conditioned by fear, they know the slightest noise will provoke...
