Hitchcock's music / Jack Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Jack, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Television music--History and criticism.

Television music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the first to fully explore the essential role music played in the movies of Alfred Hitchcock.Based on extensive interviews with composers, writers, and actors, and research in rare archives, Jack Sullivan discusses how Hitchcock used music to influence the atmosphere, characterization, and even storylines of his films. Sullivan examines the director's important relationships with various composers, especially Bernard Herrmann, and tells the stories behind the musical decisions. Covering the whole of the director's career, from the early British works up to Family Plot, this engaging look at the work of Alfred Hitchcock offers new insight into his achievement and genius and changes the way we watch-and listen-to his movies.

Contents:

Overture

The music starts

Waltzes from Vienna : Hitchcock's forgotten operetta

The man who knew too much : storm clouds over Royal Albert Hall

Musical minimalism : British Hitchcock

Rebecca : music to raise the dead

Waltzing into danger

Sounds of war

Spellbound : theremins and phallic frescoes

Notorious : bright sambas, dark secrets

The paradine case : the unhappy finale of Hitchcock and Selznick

Hitchcock in a different key : the post-Selznick experiments

The band played on : a Tiomkin trio

Rear window : the redemptive power of popular music

Lethal laughter : Hitchcock's fifties comedies

The man who knew too much : Doris Day versus the London Symphony

The wrong man : music from the dark side of the moon

Sing along with Hitch : music for television

Vertigo : the music of longing and loss

North by northwest : fandango on the rocks

Psycho : the music of terror

The birds : aviary apocalypse

The music ends : Hitchcock fires Herrmann

Topaz : the music is back

Frenzy : out with Mancini, hold the Bach

Family plot : Hitchcock's exuberant finale

Finale : Hitchcock as maestro.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-336) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611734572

9781281734570

1281734578

9780300134667

0300134665

OCLC:

952733930