Film Quarterly (2008) - Hitchcock's Music

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• book review: Hitchcock's Music
• author(s): Paul Thomas
• journal: Film Quarterly (01/Jul/2008)
• issue: volume 61, issue 4, pages 83-84
• DOI: 10.1525/fq.2008.61.4.83
• journal ISSN: 0015-1386
• publisher: University of California Press
• keywords: "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" - by Stephen Rebello, "Hitchcock's Music" - by Jack Sullivan, "Mr. Hitchcock" - by Quentin Falk, Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann, Blackmail (1929), Evan Hunter, Jack Sullivan, Maurice Jarre, Paul Thomas, Psycho (1960), Sabotage (1936), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Stephen Rebello, The Birds (1963), The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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Abstract

Review of "Hitchcock's Music" - by Jack Sullivan

Sullivan leaves no stone unturned (though his book needs a glossary explaining musical terms to the film buff and filmic terms, not to mention plot summaries, to the more musical reader). Narrative Film Music (Indiana University Press, 1987) to telling effect: "Hitchcock's examples point to the power of this music which blissfully lacks awareness or empathy; its very emotionlessness, juxtaposed with ensuing human catastrophe, is what provokes our emotional response" (200).