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How, in fact, is another speaker’s speech received? What is the mode of
existence of another’s utterance in the actual, inner speech-consciousness of
the recipient? How is it manipulated there, and what process of orientation will
the subsequent speech of the recipient have undergone in regard to it? 59

Soviet film-makers of the early sound period were faced with a bewildering range
of problems in the technical, political and aesthetic spheres. With sound as the new
‘dominant’ of the transitional period, they tackled the problem with an originality
that has largely remained unacknowledged and unexamined. Not until the
interpretative myths of the later 1930s and the Cold War have been peeled back
and the texts and films made widely available, will any full assessment of the
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achievements of this crucial period be possible.