A word on how to use this book -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The greatest gig in the world -- Introduction: Ancient & modern: an appreciation of James Newton Howard's The sixth sense -- From among the dead: Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo -- Boo Radley's porch: Elmer Bernstein's To kill a mockingbird -- Signs and meaning: From Spellbound to Inception -- Perfume: The scent of murder -- Carmen in hell: David Newman's The war of the roses -- Waltz for a dead girl: Christopher Young's Jennifer 8 -- Feed your head: Don Davis's The matrix -- Such a long, long way to fall: Danny Elfman's Alice in Wonderland -- Surgical precision: Alberto Iglesias's La piel que habito -- The strength of the righteous: Ennio Morricone's The untouchables -- Toward a new aesthetic of music for the screen -- Through a glass, and darkly: Anatomy of a cue from Jerry Goldsmith's Patton -- Stand up! Two cues from Elliot Goldenthal's Michael Collins -- John Powell slays a dragon -- Against the odds: The road to KrakoĢw -- Afterword.
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