Film Music: Hitchcock's Psycho - Professor Roger Parker

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece and its difficult, modernist score written by Bernard Herrmann. It is almost impossible to imagine the famous 'shower scene' without Herrmann's contribution, but the scene was initially imagined by Hitchcock to be without music. In this and other scenes, there are interesting ways in which the music poses questions about the film's meaning: questions that may even go beyond Hitchcock's famously all-encompassing intentions.