• Acknowledgements


• Editorial Matters


• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Chapter 1. New Media, New Means: Lieutenant Kizhe, 1932-34


• Chapter 2. The Queen of Spades, The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee, and Repatriation


• Chapter 3. The Year 1938: Halcyon Days in Hollywood and an Unanticipated Collaboration


• Chapter 4. Alexander Nevsky and the Stalinist Museum


• Chapter 5. The Wartime Films, 1940-43


• Chapter 6. Ivan the Terrible and the Russian National Tradition


• Epilogue


• Appendix


• Works cited


• Index

Kevin Bartig is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University.

Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Drawing on newly available sources, Composing for the Red Screen examines - for the first time - the full extent of this prodigious cinematic career.