Sound, speech, music in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema / edited by Lilya Kaganovsky and Masha Salazkina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaganovsky, Lilya.

Salazkina, Masha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Soviet Union.

Motion pictures.

Film soundtracks--Soviet Union.

Film soundtracks.

Motion picture music--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

From the history of graphic sound in the Soviet Union, or, Media without a medium / Nikolai Izvolov

Silents, sound, and modernism in Dmitry Shostakovich's score to The new Babylon / Joan Titus

To catch up and overtake Hollywood : early talking pictures in the Soviet Union / Valerie Pozner

ARRK and the Soviet transition to sound / Natalie Ryabchikova

Making sense without speech : the use of silence in early Soviet sound film / Emma Widdis

The problem of heteroglossia in early Soviet sound cinema (1930-35) / Evgeny Margolit

Challenging the voice of God in World War II-era Soviet documentaries / Jeremy Hicks

Vocal changes : Marlon Brando, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, and the sound of the 1950's / Oksana Bulgakowa

Listening to the inaudible foreign : simultaneous translators and Soviet experience of foreign cinema / Elena Razlogova

Kinomuzyka : theorizing Soviet film music in the 1930's / Kevin Bartig

Listening to Muzykalʹnaia istoriia (1940) / Anna Nisnevich

The music of landscape : Eisenstein, Prokofiev, and the uses of music in Ivan the Terrible / Joan Neuberger

The full illusion of reality : repentance, polystylism, and the late Soviet soundscape / Peter Schmelz

Russian rock on Soviet bones / Lilya Kaganovsky.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01110-8

OCLC:

879352509