Psycho-Analysis: Form and Function in Bernard Herrmann's Music for Hitchcock's Masterpiece
Terror Tracks - Music, Sound and Horror Cinema - Philip Hayward
James Wierzbicki [+ ]
University of Michigan
James Wierzbicki is a musicologist who teaches at the University of Michigan and serves as executive editor of the MUSA (Music of the United States of America)
series of scholarly editions.
Description
Psycho is probably the most closely and most seriously scrutinized film ever made. This chapter offers detailed analyses of the relationship between image, sound and music in the film as a whole and in the famous shower scene, in particular.