Voice of technology. The transition of Soviet cinema to sound 1928-1935

This book tells about the transition to the sound in Soviet cinema at the turn of the 1920-1930s in the context of the first five-year plan and the formation of the principles of socialist realism. These films are notable not only for their innovative, experimental, unexpected and complex use of sound, but also how they reflect - including thanks to the new sound technology - the complexity of the historical moment: the transition from silent cinema to sound, from the 20s to the 30s to the 30s -M, from avant -garde art to the art of socialist realism. The author’s focus is the experiments with the sound of Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg ("One"), Dzigi Vertov ("Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbass", "Three Songs of Lenin"), Esther Shub ("K. Sh. E."), Igor Savchenko ("Goroni"), Alexander Dovzhenko ("Ivan", "Aerograd"), as well as the films of Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Ecka, Brothers Vasilyevs and other directors. The main attention is paid to how, using new sound technologies, the relationship between cinema and power is shown