Hitchcock’s Music
"'This book is a major contribution to the understanding of both a great, infinitely fascinating director and the movie making process. It should appeal to musicologists and to those with little technical knowledge of music.' Philip French, The Observer 'Sullivan's well-documented account, including some of Hitchcock's original music briefings, sheds a refreshingly different light on familiar film classics - and their creator.' Michael Scott Rohan, BBC Music Magazine 'Sullivan, endlessly curious of ear, does not merely cherry-pick everyone's favourite seven or eight Hitchcock movie scores, but carefully analyses the music in all of them: consideration of the curio Waltzes from Vienna, or the almost subliminal, atonal electronica for The Birds, lends nuance and depth to his larger arguments. By the end he has thoroughly justified his opening gambit: "One cannot fully understand Hitchcock's movies without facing his music. Music is an alternate language in Hitchcock, sounding his characters' unconcious thoughts as it engages our own".' Steve Poole, The Guardian 'incisive and convincing... a great triumph.' Frank McLynn, Literary Review"