Kevin Bartig, Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film

As the first full-length study of Sergey Prokofiev’s film scores, Kevin Bartig’s Composing for the Red Screen fills a critical gap in the literature on this Soviet composer. Indeed, the book ranks – along with Simon Morrison’s recent chronicle of Prokofiev’s Soviet years – as one of the major contr...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Cyhoeddwyd yn:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transposition,
Prif Awdur: Kupfer, Peter
Fformat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Iaith:Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd: Transposition 2017
Mynediad Ar-lein:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Crynodeb:As the first full-length study of Sergey Prokofiev’s film scores, Kevin Bartig’s Composing for the Red Screen fills a critical gap in the literature on this Soviet composer. Indeed, the book ranks – along with Simon Morrison’s recent chronicle of Prokofiev’s Soviet years – as one of the major contributions to our understanding of Prokofiev’s circumstances and style from the late 1920s onward. This is largely because the cinema presented Prokofiev with a timely opportunity to apply his so-cal...