About the Author

Jack Sullivan is director of American Studies and professor of English at Rider University. He is the author of New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music, published by Yale University Press. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

"A richly evocative study that combines important new scholarship with sparkling sensibility. Sullivan vividly documents Hitchcock's restless eclecticism and bold interweaving of musical styles--popular, classical, avant-garde, and electronic."--Camille Paglia, author of "Sexual Personae "and "The Birds "(BFI Film Classics)
--Camille Paglia

"A wonderfully coherent, comprehensive, groundbreaking, and thoroughly engaging study of perhaps the most underexamined important element of Hitchcock's artistry."--Sidney Gottlieb, editor of "Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews
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--Sidney Gottlieb

"Hitchcock was a master of film music as well as cinema suspense, and Sullivan's spirited study lives up to its fascinating topic on every page. A milestone in Hitchcock criticism."--David Sterritt, author of "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock"
--David Sterritt

"We might think Hitchcock needed music less than other filmmakers, but Jack Sullivan, in this lovingly researched and articulated book, shows he needed it more. Music said everything Hitchcock couldn't say, even in pictures, and Mr. Sullivan expertly proves that the master's every soundtrack tells an intricate and often romantic story."--Michael Wood, Princeton University

--Michael Wood