Lilya Kaganovsky, Director and Professor of Comparative and World Literature, and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has published “The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1928-1935” (Indiana University Press, 2018).

As 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.

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. The author 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, thus producing and imposing the “Soviet Voice.”

To learn more about the book, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809139