Partners in Suspense Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock [Hardcover]

This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring essays 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 inRopeandVertigo- 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 andThe Man Who Knew Too Much- Murray Pomerance

7. On the road with Hitchcock and Herrmann: sound, music and the car journey inVertigo(1958) andPsycho(1960) - Pasquale Iannone

8. A dance to the music of Herrmann: a figurative dance suite - David Cooper

9. The sound ofThe Birds- Richard Allen

10. Musical romanticism v. the sexual aberrations of the crilCD