... This chapter begins the move in the book from its focus on impossibility to the remediated aesthetic possibility that lies in the combination of word and music. It considers the role that music plays in Hitchcock’s Rope, where one of the murderers also is a concert pianist, and in Strangers...

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... These words are prelude to murder. In a scene sweltering with summer heat and racial animus set entirely aboard a New York City subway car circa 1964 a black man named Clay spews this speech at his antagonist, a white woman called Lula. She approaches him on the moving train and starts...

...Murder of Noxola Nogwaza Ekurhuleni Pride Organizing Committee The equality clause of South Africa’s famously progressive constitution of 1996 guar- antees freedom from discrimination on the basis of not only race, ethnicity, religion, and gender but also sexual orientation. As a result...