Phil Powrie / Robynn Stilwell

Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR

Cultural Politics and Propaganda
Herausgeber: Powrie, Phil; Stilwell, Robynn J

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

They apply a variety of methodologies-including archival work, close readings, political histories, and style comparison-to this under explored field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 159mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780253219541
• ISBN-10: 025321954X
• Artikelnr.: 22938910

Autorenporträt

Phil Powrie is Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Most recently, he is co-author (with Bruce Babington, Ann Davies, and Chris Perriam) of Carmen on Film: A Cultural History (IUP, 2007). Robynn Stilwell is Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Art, Music and Theatre at Georgetown University. She is co-editor (with Phil Powrie) of Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Germany
1. Film Music in the Third ReichRobert E. Peck
2. Herbert Windt's Film Music to Triumph of the Will: Ersatz-Wagner or
Incidental Music to the Ultimate Nazi-Gesamtkunstwerk?Reimar Volker
3. Alban Berg, Lulu, and the Silent FilmMarc Weiner
4. From Revolution to Mystic Mountains: Edmund Meisel and the Politics of
ModernismChristopher Morris
5. New Technologies and Old Rites: Dissonance between Picture and Music in
Readings of Joris Ivens's RainEd Hughes
6. "Composition with Film": Mauricio Kagel as FilmmakerBjörn Heile
Part 2. The USSR
7. Eisenstein's Theory of Film Music Revisited: Silent and Early Sound
AntecedentsJulie Hubbert
8. Aleksandr Nevskiy: Prokofiev's Successful Compromise with Socialist
RealismRebecca Schwartz-Bishir
9. In Marginal Fashion: Sex, Drugs, Russian Modernism, and New Wave Music
in Liquid SkyMitchell Morris
List of Contributors
Index