Ben Winters is Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University. He is the author of several books on film music, a former co-editor of the journal Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, and co-edits the Ashgate Screen Music Series of books.

• Introduction: A Composer in Transition? Chapter 1: Korngold and the Hollywood Studio System: A Productive Working Relationship Chapter 2: A Musician for Hire: Korngold's Contracts with Warner Bros. Chapter 3: A Hollywood Compositional Toolbox Chapter 4: Korngold, the Hollywood Dramatist Chapter 5: Korngold, Materiality, and Worldbuilding Chapter 6: Korngold between Two Worlds: Hollywood and the Concert Hall Chapter 7: Korngold's Hollywood Legacy: The Purer Realm of Phantasy

The music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold is nowadays probably something of a guilty pleasure. Most of us have, I imagine, cracked the old 'more corn than gold' quip as if it were our own, and have cast aspersions on the Violin Concerto (1945) to which it was first applied. Yet, at the same time, we have secretly luxuriated in the astonishing melody of the Concerto's second theme, probably unaware of its verbatim borrowing from Korngold's music for the film Juarez (1939), and almost certainly ignorant of the film-specific practices and processes through which that music came to be. The above is a crude snapshot of the many complex issues that Ben Winters explores in his excellent new Korngold book.