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The voice of technology : Soviet cinema's transition to sound, 1928-1935

Title
The voice of technology : Soviet cinema's transition to sound, 1928-1935 / Lilya Kaganovsky.
Author
Kaganovsky, Lilya
Publication
  • Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xix, 271 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 23 cm
Summary
"As cinema industries around the globe adjusted to the introduction of synch-sound technology, the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally, politically, and ideologically from the heterogeneous film industry of the 1920s to the centralized industry of the 1930s, and from the avant-garde to Socialist Realism. In The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1928-1935, Lilya Kaganovsky explores the history, practice, technology, ideology, aesthetics, and politics of the transition to sound within the context of larger issues in Soviet media history. Industrialization and centralization of the cinema industry greatly altered the way movies in the Soviet Union were made, while the introduction of sound radically influenced the way these movies were received. Kaganovsky argues that the coming of sound changed the Soviet cinema industry by making audible, for the first time, the voice of State power, directly addressing the Soviet viewer. by exploring numerous examples of films from this transitional period, the author demonstrates the importance of the new technology of sound in producing and imposing the 'Soviet Voice'."--
Alternative Title
Soviet cinema's transition to sound, 1928-1935
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Soviet Union
  • Motion picture industry > Soviet Union
  • Sound in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > Political aspects > Soviet Union
  • Nationalism in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.
Contents
Introduction. The long transition : Soviet cinema and the coming of sound -- The voice of technology and the end of Soviet silent film : Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's Alone -- The materiality of sound : Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm and Esfir Shub's K.Sh.E. -- The homogeneous thinking subject, or Soviet cinema learns to sing : Igor Savchenko's The Accordion -- Multilingualism and heteroglossia in Aleksandr Dovzhenko's Ivan and Aerograd -- "Les silences de la voix": Dziga Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin -- Conclusion. Socialist realist sound.
Call Number
MFL 18-2775
ISBN
  • 025303504X
  • 9780253035042
  • 9780253032645
  • 0253032644
  • 9780253032652
  • 0253032652
OCLC
1007083608
Author
Kaganovsky, Lilya, author.
Title
The voice of technology : Soviet cinema's transition to sound, 1928-1935 / Lilya Kaganovsky.
Publisher
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 18-2775
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