Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Stalinist Cinema (1936-1953)

Following the first volume on Dmitry Shostakovich's early career and his emergence as the first composer for Soviet Russian cinema, this book examines Shostakovich's continued development as a film composer and his navigation of Stalinist cultural politics from 1936 to 1953.

Auteur

Joan Titus is Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She researches the cultural politics of audiovisual media and has published on the themes of Soviet and Russian film music, indigeneity and transnational identities, and the intersectionality of gender, race, and nationalism in music for screen media.