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.
CONTENTS
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
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