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The classic thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, including
Vertigo,
North by Northwest and
Psycho, achieved much of their power from the music of legendary Academy Award winner Bernard Herrmann (
Citizen Kane,
Taxi Driver). In this book, author Steven C. Smith delivers an intimate account of how the reserved, but deeply anxious, Hitchcock found his ideal creative partner in the cantankerous, but deeply romantic, Herrmann. Their collaboration ended in a bitter break; but today, the music from their movies is more popular than ever, heard in Quentin Tarantino blockbusters and Lady Gaga music videos. Smith takes us inside the friendship between "Benny and Hitch," and explains why Herrmann's pulse-quickening music has become the soundtrack of our own anxious times.
Table des matières
- Prelude
- 1. Shadows of Doubt
- 2. Troubles with Harry
- 3. The Team that Knew So Much
- 4. Wronged Men
- 5. I Want You So to Love Me: Vertigo, Part One
- 6. We'll Just Have the Camera and You: Vertigo, Part Two
- 7. On the Rocks
- 8. Something Terrible is Going to Happen: Psycho, Part One
- 9. The Real Psycho Theme: Psycho, Part Two
- 10. Electronic Assassins
- 11. Murder by Television
- 12. Torture the Women: Marnie
- 13. The Curtain Falls, Part One
- 14. The Curtain Falls, Part Two
- 15. Coda: Hitchcock's Secret
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
A propos de l'auteur
Steven C. Smith is a four-time Emmy-nominated documentary producer and award-winning author. His over 200 documentaries about film and music include collaborations with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Stephen Sondheim, John Williams, Julie Andrews and Sidney Poitier. His biographies of composers Bernard Herrmann and Max Steiner each received the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Award. He has lectured at the Library of Congress, American Film Institute, Academy of Motion Pictures Museum and other organizations. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times.
