The Friday 56 is hosted by Storytime with Tonya and Friends
RULES
- Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
- Turn to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).
- Post a link with your post to Storytime (and here on Bryan’s Book Blog).
The closest book to hand today is one I’m using for the paper I’m writing for my Music in Shakespeare class. The paper is on the use of music, sound and noise in Julie Taymor’s film Titus and how those elements work together to make an already disturbing play even more disturbing and unsettling. Naturally, some theory on how sound and music and noise work in horror films is essential. So, without further ado, here is my Friday 56:
Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinemaedited by Philip Hayward
(London: Equinox, 2009)
Trade Paperback, 286 Pages, Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781845532024, US$29.95
My 56: “The prelude music [in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho] that includes presentations of both the ‘Psycho chord’ and the ‘Psycho theme’ are used for three scenes of Marion in her car” (56).
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