How Could You Possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally Re-narrativizing Collaborative Authorship
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 94
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526107725
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/1307/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This collection brings together new work and perspectives on the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. It examines 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 essays in the collection examine the ways in which film directors and composers collaborate, how this collaboration is experienced in the film text, and the ways such a partnership inspires later work. The collection features essays by leading scholars of Hitchcock’s work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb and Jack Sullivan, looking at the working relationship between Hitchcock and Herrmann, and the contribution that the composer’s work brings to Hitchcock’s idiom. It explores approaches to sound, music, authorship in addition to adding to the body of work on Hitchcock’s films.
The book developed from a conference held at York St John in March 2011. Steven Rawle acted as academic lead and co-convener (with Robert Edgar) for the event, and curated contributions from composers, performers, film directors and public screenings of Hitchcock’s work alongside the academic content of the conference. Edited by Rawle along with K.J. Donnelly (Southampton), the collection’s overall focus reflects the project’s approach to consider the collaboration of this significant partnership, but also to contribute more broadly to the film studies discipline in terms of sound, music and authorship. With the addition of further noted Hitchcockians by the editors, the book is organised as such to reflect the historical and theoretical focus of the research, with Rawle’s chapter ‘How Could You Possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?’ reflecting on contemporary discourses of authorship in relation to collaboration and sound-audio hierarchies that tie the research project together conceptually.
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- Non-English
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