Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema

Name: Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema
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ISBN: 9780253011046

ISBN-10: 0253011043

ISBN-13: 9780253011046

Edition: 2014

Authors: Lilya Kaganovsky, Masha Salazkina, Kevin Bartig, Oksana Bulgakowa, Jeremy Hicks

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This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic culture as formative of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. Leading experts and emerging scholars from film studies, musicology, music theory, history, and cultural studies examine the importance of sound in Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet cinema from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives. Addressing the little-known theoretical and artistic experimentation with sound in Soviet cinema, changing practices of voice delivery and translation, and issues of aesthetic ideology and music…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Note on Transliteration


List of Abbreviations


Introduction




From Silence to Sound



From the History of Graphic Sound in the USSR or Media without a Medium




Silents, Sound, and Modernism in Dmitry Shostakovich's Score to The New Babylon




To Catch up and Overtake Hollywood: Early Talking Pictures in the Soviet Union




ARRK and the Soviet Transition to Sound




Making Sense without Speech: The Use of Silence in Early Soviet Sound Film




Speech and Voice



The Problem of Heteroglossia in Early Soviet Sound Cinema (1930-1935)




Challenging the Voice-of-God in World War II Era Soviet Documentaries




Vocal Changes: Marlon Brando, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, and The Sound of The 1950s




Listening to the Inaudible Foreign: Simultaneous Translators and Soviet Experience of Foreign Cinema




Music in Film, or the Soundtrack



Kinomuzyka: Theorizing Soviet Film Music in the 1930s




Ear of the Beholder: Listening in Muzykal'naia istoriia (1940)




The Music of Landscape: Eisenstein, Prokofiev and the Uses of Music in Ivan The Terrible




The Full Illusion of Reality: Repentance, Polystylism, and the Late Soviet Soundscape




Russian Rock on Soviet Bones



Bibliography


Contributors


Index