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Steven C. Smith is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer, author, and speaker who specializes in Hollywood history and profiles of contemporary filmmakers.
A four-time Emmy nominee and sixteen-time Telly Award winner, Steven has produced and written over 200 documentaries. They include The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg; The Lure of the Desert: Martin Scorsese on Lawrence of Arabia; A Place for Us: West Side Story’s Legacy; and Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood.
He is the author of three acclaimed books: Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema (Oxford), Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer (Oxford), and A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann (UC Press). He has twice won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award, and the Herrmann biography was the main research source for the Academy Award-nominated documentary Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann.
Hitchcock and Herrmann:
The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema
“A wonderful study of two of history’s most lovable incorrigibles.”
– John Williams
This is the story of the game-changing collaboration between director Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, who channeled their inner fears and desires into films that would become the nightmarish soundtracks of our lives.
Also by Steven C. Smith:
Music by Max Steiner:
The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to establish the language of film music, while writing many of cinema’s most memorable scores.
A Heart at Fire's Center:
The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
No composer contributed more to film than Oscar winner Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese.
A Heart at Fire's Center:
The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
