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

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ISBN-10: 025321954X

ISBN-13: 9780253219541

Edition: 2007

Authors: Phil Powrie, Robynn J. Stilwell, Robynn J. Stilwell

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An innovative look into the intersection of film and music in Russia and Germany
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Phil Powrie is Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has published widely on French film, including French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity; Contemporary French Cinema: Continuity and Difference; and French Cinema: A Student's Guide.

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.

Introduction
Germany
Film Music in the Third Reich
Herbert Windt's Film Music to Triumph of the Will: Ersatz-Wagner or Incidental Music to the Ultimate Nazi-Gesamtkunstwerk?
Alban Berg, Lulu, and the Silent Film
From Revolution to Mystic Mountains: Edmund Meisel and the Politics of Modernism
New Technologies and Old Rites: Dissonance between Picture and Music in Readings of Joris Ivens's Rain
"Composition with Film": Mauricio Kagel as Filmmaker
The USSR
Eisenstein's Theory of Film Music Revisited: Silent and Early Sound Antecedents
Aleksandr Nevskiy: Prokofiev's Successful Compromise with Socialist Realism
In Marginal Fashion: Sex, Drugs, Russian Modernism, and New Wave Music in Liquid Sky
List of Contributors
Index