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Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema
Lilya
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Description for Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema
Paperback. 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 theory, this book explores the cultural and historical factors that influenced the use of voice, music, and sound on Soviet and post-Soviet screens. Editor(s): Kaganovsky, Lilya; Salazkina, Masha. Num Pages: 314 pages, 24 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
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 theory, this book explores the cultural and historical factors that influenced the use of voice, music, and sound on Soviet and post-Soviet screens.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253011046
SKU
V9780253011046
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99-50
About Lilya
Lilya Kaganovsky is Associate Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature, and Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of How the Soviet Man Was Unmade. Masha Salazkina is Research Chair in Transnational Media Arts and Culture at Concordia University, Montreal. She is author of In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico and has published in Cinema Journal, Screen, October, and KinoKultura.
Reviews for Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema
"Featuring essays from both established and emerging scholars, the volume will be of great use across disciplines in film studies, musicology, Russian studies, history, and cultural studies. It will be especially valuable for Soviet film scholars interested in the Stalinist period."—Choice "The stellar and insightful scholarship of . . . virtually every essay . . . thus makes good on Salazkina's introductory call for more 'exploration[s]s of the relationship between technology and the aesthetics of production, reception, and consumption of film' in regard to Soviet and post-Soviet sound, while also laying the foundation for even more exhaustive future work."—Cineaste "Sound, Speech, Music augurs exciting avenues of inquiry in film and media studies. The volume's multidisciplinary perspectives, often woven with rich cultural analysis, contribute to a larger discourse in the humanities and social sciences. In coeditor Salazkina's words, 'The contributions here are meant to provoke a conversation that may change the way we look at the history of our modernity'. . . . Undoubtedly, they will."—Film Quarterly "The essays here on sound and speech may . . . be considered pioneering, while the essays on music are a welcome addition to a small body of scholarship. Taken together, these pieces open a range of possibilities for future research."—Slavic Review "Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema is an important book. It contains rich case studies, important theoretical insights, and an admirable interdisciplinary and international focus. Most important, it . . . should serve as a foundational text in the field of Russian/Soviet sound studies."—Kritika "A fascinating study that will make a significant contribution to multiple disciplines."—Nora Alter, author of Projecting History: German Non-Fiction Film 1967-2000 "An invaluable account of sound as a core cinematic modality. With contributions by leading scholars from six countries, this volume marks a new 'sonic turn' in both Slavic and cinema studies and will be a standard reference in sound studies."—Nancy Condee, author of The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema