Music is an underexplored dimension in Hitchcocks works. Taking a different view from most works on Hitchcock, David Schroeder focuses on how an expanded definition of music influences Hitchcocks conception of cinema. The structure and rhythm of his films is an important addition to the critical literature on Hitchcock and our understanding of his films and approach to filmmaking. Alfred Hitchcock liked to describehis work as a director in musical terms; for some of his films, it appears that he started with an underlying musical conception, and transformed that sense of music into visual ima.Abstract: Focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. This title also focuses on how an expanded definition of musicinfluences Hitchcock's conception of cinema.