In The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich, Joan Titus examines the scores of six of Shostakovich's films, from 1928 through 1936 with an approach that combines film studies, musicology, Russian studies and original scholarship.

• Contents


• Abbreviations


• Notes on transliteration


• About the Companion Website


• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: New Babylon (1928-1929) and Scoring for the Silent Film


• Chapter 3: Alone (1929-1931) and the Beginnings of Sound Film


• Chapter 4: Golden Mountains (1931) and the New Soviet Sound Film


• Chapter 5: Counterplan (1932) and the Socialist Realist Film


• Chapter 6: Youth of Maxim (1934-1935) and the Minimal Score


• Chapter 7: Girlfriends (1935-1936) and the "Girls of the Future"


• Chapter 8: Epilogue


• Bibliography


• Index

Joan Titus is an associate professor of musicology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. With a background in musicology, film studies, and Slavic, her research interests span cultural politics, music for Russian/Soviet film, gender and music, and indigenous music.