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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 1950s / Oksana Bulgakowa -- Listening to the inaudible foreign : simultaneous translators and Soviet experience of foreign cinema / Elena Razlogova -- Kinomuzyka : theorizing Soviet film music in the 1930s / 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.

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