Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR : Cultural Politics and Propaganda

SUMARIO. Introduction // I. Germany 1. Film Music in the Third Reich ; Robert 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 Film ; Marc Weiner / 4. From Revolution to Mystic Mountains: Edmund Meisel and the Politics of Film ; Christopher Morris / 5. New Technologies and Old Rites: Dissonance between Picture and Music in Readings of Joris Ivens's Rain ; Ed Hughes / 6. Composition with Film: Mauricio Kagel as Filmmaker ; Bjorn Heile // II. The USSR 7. Rhythm, Rhythm, and Before All Else Rhythm!: Music and Eisenstein's Theory of Montage ; Julie Hubbert / 8. Aleksandr Nevskiy: Prokofiev's Successful Compromise with Socialist Realism ; Rebecca Schwartz-Bishir / 9. In Marginal Fashion: Sex, Drugs, Russian Modernism, and New Wave Music in Liquid Sky ; Mitchell Morris