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Textual Analysis Of The Movie Manny

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In Hitchcock film Manny (Henry Fonda) in order to eke out a living plays jazz, to say more specifically the swing, which uses a percussion-bass ground with brass melody. The jazz is the quintessence/epitome of American culture that flowered from slavery and despair of black Americans igniting hope. Hermann’s “Prelude” (the main credit theme) “accurately represents the dour/gloomy Manny Balestrero, whose middle class existence in the1950s is anything but jazzy,” writes Jack Sullivan. He also notes that “at the end of the main title, Manny appears on the left of the screen standing rigidly, like a marionette, a striking contrast to the festive balloons floating above” (211). It is interesting to note that Manny plays swing rather than serious

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