Hitchcock’s Music

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ISBN: 9780300136180 | 0300136188
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 5/20/2008

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Over the course of a long and brilliant career, Alfred Hitchcock changed the way we think about film music. This is a fascinating exploration of the essential role that music played in Hitchcock's movies, from Stage Fright to Vertigo to Family Plot. Book jacket.

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Overture	p. xiii
The Music Starts	p. 1
Waltzes from Vienna: Hitchcock's Forgotten Operetta	p. 20
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Storm Clouds over Royal Albert Hall	p. 31
Musical Minimalism: British Hitchcock	p. 39
Rebecca: Music to Raise the Dead	p. 58
Waltzing into Danger	p. 81
Sounds of War	p. 96
Spellbound: Theremins and Phallic Frescoes	p. 106
Notorious: Bright Sambas, Dark Secrets	p. 124
The Paradine Case: The Unhappy Finale of Hitchcock and Selznick	p. 137
Hitchcock in a Different Key: The Post-Selznick Experiments	p. 144
The Band Played On: A Tiomkin Trio	p. 156
Rear Window: The Redemptive Power of Popular Music	p. 169
Lethal Laughter: Hitchcock's Fifties Comedies	p. 183
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Doris Day versus the London Symphony	p. 192
The Wrong Man: Music from the Dark Side of the Moon	p. 207
Sing Along with Hitch: Music for Television	p. 214
Vertigo: The Music of Longing and Loss	p. 222
North by Northwest: Fandango on the Rocks	p. 235
Psycho: The Music of Terror	p. 243
The Birds: Aviary Apocalypse	p. 259
The Music Ends: Hitchcock Fires Herrmann	p. 273
Topaz: The Music Is Back	p. 290
Frenzy: Out with Mancini, Hold the Bach	p. 298
Family Plot: Hitchcock's Exuberant Finale	p. 308
Finale: Hitchcock as Maestro	p. 318
Notes	p. 323
Index	p. 337
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