Composing for the screen in Germany and the USSR
Subtitle: cultural politics and propaganda
By: edited by Robynn Stilwell and Phil Powrie.
Contributors: Stilwell, Robynn Jeananne.; Powrie, Phil.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780253349767; 9780253219541
Subjects: Motion picture music -- Germany -- History and criticism; Motion picture music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism; Music and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Germany. Film music in the Third Reich / Robert E. Peck ; Herbert Windt's film music to Triumph of the will : ersatz-Wagner or incidental music to the ultimate Nazi-Gesamtkunstwerk? / Reimar Volker ; Alban Berg, Lulu, and the silent film / Marc Weiner ; From revolution to mystic mountains : Edmund Meisel and the politics of modernism / Christopher Morris ; New technologies and old rites : dissonance between picture and music in readings of Joris Ivens's Rain / Ed Hughes ; "Composition with film" : Mauricio Kagel as filmmaker / Björn Heile; title: The USSR. Eisenstein's theory of film music revisited : silent and early sound antecedents / Julie Hubbert ; Aleksandr Nevskiy : Prokofiev's successful compromise with socialist realism / Rebecca Schwartz-Bishir ; In marginal fashion : sex, drugs, Russian modernism, and new wave music in Liquid sky / Mitchell Morris.