A Word on How to Use This Book................................................................................................................... vii
Acknowledgments.............................................................................................................................................. ix
Foreword: The Greatest Gig in the World........................................................................................................ xi
Introduction: Ancient & Modern: An Appreciation of James Newton Howard’s The Sixth Sense.......... xv
One. From Among the Dead: Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo............................................................................ 1
Two. Boo Radley’s Porch: Elmer Bernstein’s To Kill a Mockingbird............................................................. 23
Three. Signs and Meaning: From Spellbound to Inception .......................................................................... 46
Four. Perfume: The Scent of Murder ................................................................................................................ 78
Five. Carmen in Hell: David Newman’s The War of the Roses ..................................................................... 101
Six. Waltz for a Dead Girl: Christopher Young’s Jennifer 8 ........................................................................... 131
Seven. Feed Your Head: Don Davis’s The Matrix............................................................................................. 161
Eight. Such a Long, Long Way to Fall: Danny Elfman’s Alice in Wonderland ............................................. 196
Nine. Surgical Precision: Alberto Iglesias’s La piel que habito .................................................................... 229
Ten. The Strength of the Righteous: Ennio Morricone’s The Untouchables............................................... 263
Eleven. Toward a New Aesthetic of Music for the Screen ............................................................................ 301
Twelve. Through a Glass, and Darkly: Anatomy of a Cue from Jerry Goldsmith’s Patton........................ 323
Thirteen. Stand Up! Two Cues from Elliot Goldenthal’s Michael Collins .................................................... 335
Fourteen. John Powell Slays a Dragon ............................................................................................................ 351
Fifteen. Against the Odds: The Road to Kraków ............................................................................................ 383
Afterword.............................................................................................................................................................. 387