Hitting the Right Notes

Lester D. Friedman is an emeritus professor and former chair of the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author, co-author, and editor of over 20 books on film genres, American cinema of the 1970s, American Jewish cinema, British film of the 1980s, and Health and Humanities including most recently Citizen Spielberg, 2nd Edition.CHARITY LOFTHOUSE is an associate professor of music at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

• Foreword: "The Magic of Music" MARK WATTERSPreface: What to Expect in This Book Introduction: See Me, Hear Me, Feel Me 1 The Sounds of Silents2 "Welcome to Sherwood Forest": The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 3 "Think I Might Go On a Piece": Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) 4 "Round Up the Usual Suspects": Casablanca (1942) 5 "It's the Pictures That Got Small": Sunset Boulevard (1950) 6 "I Led Too Dull a Life": North by Northwest (1959) 7 "We Always Lose": The Magnificent Seven (1960) 8 "You Don't Sell the Dream of a Lifetime": Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 9 "Forget It, Jake; It's Chinatown": Chinatown (1974) 10 "He's Coming Back for His Noon Feeding": Jaws (1975) 11 "This Is What It Means to Be a Slave": Blade Runner (1982) 12 "You Sho' Is Ugly": The Color Purple (1985) 13 "The Most Beautiful Thing in the World Is a Match Well Made": Emma (1996) 14 "Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys": Batman (1989) 15 "God Bless White America": BlacKkKlansman (2018) 16 "Is It Getting Crazier Out There?": Joker (2019) 17 Directors Who Compose and Compilation Scores 18 Making the Magic: Concluding Comments Appendix: Director/Composer Combinations for Further StudiesAcknowledgmentsWorks Cited Index

"Expansive and engaging, Friedman and Lofthouse's book offers a carefully curated tour through movie scoring history—guided by a strong set of central questions and pursued through a succession of richly contextualized and probing close readings." - Frank Lehman, author of Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema"Film music lovers will relish this book! Since one author is from cinema studies and the other from music, their full breadth of expertise shines through. With beautifully described scenes along with bios, contexts, and collaborative descriptions, the authors provide a peek behind the curtain for well-loved films and the music that score them." - Janet Bourne, associate professor of music theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara"Friedman and Lofthouse's exploration of fifteen classic films—some oft-dissected scores, others previously unexamined—will shed new light on the collaborative nature of film scoring for students, scholars, and enthusiasts alike." - William O'Hara, associate professor of music theory at Gettysburg College