Composing for the Red Screen : Prokofiev and Soviet Film

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.