Book contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Happy Mood Over this, Roy”: Webb's Score for Cat People as Film Analysis
- 2 Fractured Reasons and Fractured Reason in i Walked With a Zombie
- 3 The Leopard Man as Penitential Horror Film
- 4 Searching for Meaning in the Seventh Victim
- 5 A Wartime Fable in the Sounds of the Ghost Ship
- 6 Music for Amy and her Friend: Webb's Score for the Curse of the Cat People
- 7 Boris Karloff and the Soundtrack of the Body Snatcher
- 8 Validating Uncertainty on the Isle of the Dead
- 9 “Dainty Little Notes, Ain't they?”: Roy Webb's Age of Reason in Bedlam
- 10 A Closing Argument
- References
- List of Films Cited
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2023
- Frontmatter
- List of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Happy Mood Over this, Roy”: Webb's Score for Cat People as Film Analysis
- 2 Fractured Reasons and Fractured Reason in i Walked With a Zombie
- 3 The Leopard Man as Penitential Horror Film
- 4 Searching for Meaning in the Seventh Victim
- 5 A Wartime Fable in the Sounds of the Ghost Ship
- 6 Music for Amy and her Friend: Webb's Score for the Curse of the Cat People
- 7 Boris Karloff and the Soundtrack of the Body Snatcher
- 8 Validating Uncertainty on the Isle of the Dead
- 9 “Dainty Little Notes, Ain't they?”: Roy Webb's Age of Reason in Bedlam
- 10 A Closing Argument
- References
- List of Films Cited
- Index
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- Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton , pp. vii - xPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022