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Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies).

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Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook. By David Cooper. (Film Score Guides, 2.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. (xviii, 157 p. ISBN 0-313-31490-X. $52.] Music examples, illustrations, index.

The history of film music studies has been marked by its slow acceptance within the scholarly community. Though there have been rumblings of scholarly attention as far back as the 1940s, it is in the last thirty years that a continuous thread of high quality work has emerged and matured from within the academy. Hence, Greenwood Press's series Film Score Guides in which an entire monograph is devoted to a single film score (the second issue is under review ...

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