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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKaganovsky's research is impeccable. Not only does she reference virtually all English-language writing on her subject, she also has combed the archives, unearthing personal stories, government records, filmmakers' notes, press reviews from the period, and other previously untranslated documents.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Prologue
Introduction: The Long Transition: Soviet Cinema and the Coming of Sound
1. The Voice of Technology and the End of Soviet Silent Film: Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's Alone
2. The Materiality of Sound: Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm and Esfir Shub's K.Sh.E.
3. The Homogeneous Thinking Subject, or Soviet Cinema Learns to Sing: Igor Savchenko's TheAccordion
4. Multilingualism and Heteroglossia in Aleksandr Dovzhenko's Ivan and Aerograd
5. "Les Silences de la voix": Dziga Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin
Conclusion: Socialist Realist Sound
Works Cited
Index
