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First, I discover that Silva Records has a free exclusive Wicker Man (1973) music track for download on their site that wasn't in the film, nor on their excellent CD soundtrack. It's WILLOW'S THEME, but without the vocals! Wow, a "lost" version of one of the best songs ever, for free! If that track doesn't rouse your spirits, then I don't know what could.
I also HAVE to have this book!:
Constructing ‘The Wicker Man’: Film and Cultural Studies Perspectives, Crichton Campus
University of Glasgow, 2005.
It contains the following essays:
Straw or Wicker? Traditions of Scottish film criticism and The Wicker Man: Jonathan Murray;
Religion in The Wicker Man: Context and representation: Steven J. Sutcliffe;
Demotic Possession: The hierarchic and anarchic in The Wicker Man: Benjamin Franks;
‘Here On Official Business’: Production, patriarchy and the hazards of policing a pre-industrial utopia: Belle Doyle;
‘The Game’s Over’. Breaking the Spell of Summerisle: Feminist discourse and The Wicker Man: Gail Ashurst;
Sightseeing in Summerisle: Film tourism and The Wicker Man: Lesley Stevenson;
Things that go Clunk in the Cult Film Text: Nodes and interstices in The Wicker Man: Justin Smith;
Now a Major Motion Picture? The Wicker Man Novelisation: Mark Jones;
Mister Punch as Sacrificial Victim in The Wicker Man: Melissa Smith;
‘The Other Coppers’: Uncanniness identity and The Wicker Man audience: Stephen Harper;
The Wicker Man, The Uncanny, and the Clash of Moral Cultures: Stefan Gullatz