Kevin Bartig

Composing for the Red Screen

Prokofiev and Soviet Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Drawing on newly available sources, Composing for the Red Screen examines - for the first time - the full extent of this prodigious cinematic career.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780190213282
• ISBN-10: 0190213280
• Artikelnr.: 47864134

Autorenporträt

Kevin Bartig is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Editorial Matters
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Chapter 1. New Media, New Means: Lieutenant Kizhe, 1932-34
* Chapter 2. The Queen of Spades, The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee, and
Repatriation
* Chapter 3. The Year 1938: Halcyon Days in Hollywood and an
Unanticipated Collaboration
* Chapter 4. Alexander Nevsky and the Stalinist Museum
* Chapter 5. The Wartime Films, 1940-43
* Chapter 6. Ivan the Terrible and the Russian National Tradition
* Epilogue
* Appendix
* Works cited
* Index