A study of the importance of Bernard Herrmann's music to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. This essay focusses on the period 1958—1960, when Alfred Hitchcock made the seminal films Vertigo, North by northwest and Psycho.

These three films all featured title sequences by Saul Bass and the similarities of style between the three auteurs is examined as a context for the focus of Herrmann's music.

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