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Book SynopsisA compelling collection that looks at one of the most famed director-composer collaborations in film history.
Trade Review‘As well as the intrinsic interest of the subject-matter, the book is indispensable on account of the quality of the contributors and their contributions. Some of the leading scholars of Hitchcock and Herrmann studies have been assembled for this volume, with the result that the text is not only authoritative but brimming with recent discovery. It is a book at the cutting-edge of current research on film authorship and a re-consideration of the relationship between image and soundtrack.’
Neil Sinyard, Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, University of Hull
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Table of ContentsIntroduction - K. J. Donnelly and Steven Rawle
1. Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's secret sharer - Jack Sullivan
2. Hitchcock, music and the mathematics of editing - Charles Barr
3. The anatomy of aural suspense in Rope and Vertigo - Kevin Clifton
4. The therapeutic power of music in Hitchcock's films - Sidney Gottlieb
5. A Lacanian take on Herrmann/Hitchcock - Royal S. Brown
6. Portentous arrangements: Bernard Herrmann and The Man Who Knew Too Much - Murray Pomerance
7. On the road with Hitchcock and Herrmann: sound, music and the car journey in Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) - Pasquale Iannone
8. A dance to the music of Herrmann: a figurative dance suite - David Cooper
9. The sound of The Birds - Richard Allen
10. Musical romanticism v. the sexual aberrations of the criminal female: Marnie (1964) - K. J. Donnelly
11. The murder of Gromek: theme and variations - Tomas Williams
12. Mending the Torn Curtain: a rejected score's place in a discography - Gergely Hubai
13. The Herrmann-Hitchcock murder mysteries: post-mortem - William H. Rosar
14. How could you possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally re-narrativising collaborative authorship - Steven Rawle
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