Writing in the New York Times about Jack Sullivan’s new book, Hitchcock’s Music, Edward Rothstein writes, “For Hitchcock music was not merely an accompaniment. It was a focus. And it didn’t just reveal something about the characters who sang the score’s songs or moved under its canopy of sound; music could seem to be a character itself . . . . [Sullivan] shows that it isn’t just that Hitchcock believed that sound should serve image; he believed that image should serve sound.”
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