{"product_id":"voice-of-technology-soviet-cinemas-transition-to-sound-1928-1935-9780253032652","title":"Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1928-1935","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1928-1935\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, Kaganovsky demonstrates the importance of the new technology of sound in producing and imposing the \"Soviet Voice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLilya Kaganovsky is Associate Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature, and Media \u0026amp; Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of \u003ci\u003eHow the Soviet Man was Unmade\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor (with Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Robert A Rushing) of \u003ci\u003eMad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960\u003c\/i\u003e and (with Masha Salzkina) of \u003ci\u003eSound, Music, Speech in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press (Ips)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844180676882,"sku":"9780253032652","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a54a63dd-9cee-4955-bc07-7988517a4b2b.jpg?v=1737313430","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/voice-of-technology-soviet-cinemas-transition-to-sound-1928-1935-9780253032652","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}