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Professor MERVYN COOKE's Outputs (6)

A Bridge Too Far?: Music in the British War Film, 1945‒1979 (2019)
Book Chapter
Cooke, M. (2019). A Bridge Too Far?: Music in the British War Film, 1945‒1979. In M. Baumgartner, & E. Boczkowska (Eds.), Music, Memory, Nostalgia and Trauma in European Cinema after the Second World War. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988) (2018)
Book Chapter
Cooke, M. (2018). Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988). In J. Cook, A. Kolassa, & A. Whittaker (Eds.), Recomposing the past: representations of early music on stage and screen. Routledge

George Fenton’s resourceful use of both pastiche and genuine baroque and classical music in the scoring of period-set feature films is nowhere more impressive than in Dangerous Liaisons (1988). Strongly influenced by the films of Alfred Hitchcock, di... Read More about Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988).