This course will explore musicological approaches to the study of music in cinema by looking at the films of arguably the most famous director of the twentieth century, Alfred Hitchcock. In a career spanning half a century, Hitchcock's output of some sixty films ranged from the silent era to the advent of Dolby Sound, with composers spanning several generations of greats, from Franz Waxman to John Williams. Hitchcock’s approach to music varies widely, from its centrality to the plot of Waltzes from Vienna (1933) to its conspicuous absence in The Birds (1963), and from non- diegetic orchestral cues in nearly every film after 1930 to key diegetic uses as heard in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Using these films as a starting point, the seminar will explore theoretical approaches to film music, in particular the seminal work of Michel Chion.