This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb and Jack Sullivan, the collection examines the working relationship between the pair and the contribution that Herrmann's work brings to Hitchcock's idiom. Examining key works, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Psycho, Marnie and Vertigo, the essays explore approaches to sound, music, collaborative authorship and the distinctive contribution that Herrmann's work with Hitchcock brought to this body of films, examining the significance, meanings, histories and enduring legacies of one of film history's most important partnerships. By engaging with the collaborative work of Hitchcock and Herrmann, the book explores the ways in which film directors and composers collaborate, how this collaboration is experienced in the film text, and the ways in which such partnerships inspire later work.
Introduction - 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 Index -- .
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