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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 France

The 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...

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