Composing for the Red Screen : Prokofiev and Soviet Film
Bartig, Kevin
SUMARIO. Introduction // New media, new means : Lieutenant Kizhe. Cinema and new simplicity — Outlines — Music for an absent hero — Celluloid sound — Skazka / The queen of spades, the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee, and repatriation. The new simplicity and Pushkin’s True spirit — A silent with a soundtrack — New music for an old tale — Committee intervention / The year 1938 : halcyon days in Hollywood and an unanticipated collaboration. Hollywood, part two — Popov, Eisenstein, and Prokofiev — Forging collaborative methods / Alexander Nevsky and the Stalinist Museum. Epic frame, epic sound — The assumed vernacular — Prokofiev’s Russians — Stalin Prize / The wartime films. The path to Alma-ata — Wartime collaboration — Authenticity versus Patriotic resonance — Cosmopolitan versus Russian — Ukrainian partisans — Realities / Ivan the Terrible and the Russian national tradition. Outlines — Ivan in Russian music — Caricatures and villainy — Prokofiev’s Ivan, Eisenstein’s Gesamtkunstwerk — Eisenstein’s multivalency — Stalin Prize revisited // Epilogue // Appendix: Prokofiev, His respect for music was so great.
Composing for the Red Screen : Prokofiev and Soviet Film
Bartig, Kevin
SUMARIO. Introduction // New media, new means : Lieutenant Kizhe. Cinema and new simplicity — Outlines — Music for an absent hero — Celluloid sound — Skazka / The queen of spades, the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee, and repatriation. The new simplicity and Pushkin’s True spirit — A silent with a soundtrack — New music for an old tale — Committee intervention / The year 1938 : halcyon days in Hollywood and an unanticipated collaboration. Hollywood, part two — Popov, Eisenstein, and Prokofiev — Forging collaborative methods / Alexander Nevsky and the Stalinist Museum. Epic frame, epic sound — The assumed vernacular — Prokofiev’s Russians — Stalin Prize / The wartime films. The path to Alma-ata — Wartime collaboration — Authenticity versus Patriotic resonance — Cosmopolitan versus Russian — Ukrainian partisans — Realities / Ivan the Terrible and the Russian national tradition. Outlines — Ivan in Russian music — Caricatures and villainy — Prokofiev’s Ivan, Eisenstein’s Gesamtkunstwerk — Eisenstein’s multivalency — Stalin Prize revisited // Epilogue // Appendix: Prokofiev, His respect for music was so great.
