Partners in suspense : critical essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock /

For a decade from 1955, Alfred Hitchcock worked almost exclusively with one composer: Bernard Herrmann. From The Trouble with Harry to the bitter spat surrounding Torn Curtain, the partnership gave us some of cinema's most memorable musical moments, taught us to stay out of the shower, away fro...

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Other Authors: Rawle, Steven (Editor), Donnelly, K. J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's secret sharer / Jack Sullivan
  • 2. Hitchcock, music and the mathematics of editing / Charles Ban
  • 3. anatomy of aural suspense in Rope and Vertigo / Kevin Clifton
  • 4. therapeutic power of music in Hitchcock's films / Sidney Gottlieb
  • 5. 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. dance to the music of Herrmann: a figurative dance suite / David Cooper
  • 9. sound of The Birds / Richard Allen
  • 10. Musical romanticism v. the sexual aberrations of the criminal female: Mamie (1964) / K.J. Donnelly
  • 11. murder of Gromek: theme and variations / Tomas Williams
  • 12. Mending the Torn Curtain: a rejected score's place in a discography / Gergely Hubai
  • 13. 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.