7 Boris Karloff and the Soundtrack of The Body Snatcher

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 “Happy Mood Over This, Roy”: Webb’s Score for Cat People as Film Analysis 20
7. 2 Fractured Reasons and Fractured Reason in I Walked with a Zombie 39
8. 3 The Leopard Man as Penitential Horror Film 58
9. 4 Searching for Meaning in The Seventh Victim 71
10. 5 A Wartime Fable in the Sounds of The Ghost Ship 86
11. 6 Music for Amy and Her Friend: Webb’s Score for The Curse of the Cat People 105
12. 7 Boris Karloff and the Soundtrack of The Body Snatcher 119
13. 8 Validating Uncertainty on the Isle of the Dead 143
14. 9 “Dainty Little Notes, Ain’t They?”: Roy Webb’s Age of Reason in Bedlam 169
15. 10 A Closing Argument 191
16. References 200
17. List of Films Cited 205
18. Index 208