Thursday 7 April 2011

Research on the genre THRILLER

Thriller is a genre of literature, film, video gaming and television that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenre is psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight/chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods.
Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly:
·         Ransoms
·         Captivities
·         Heists
·         Revenge
·         Kidnappings

More common in mystery thrillers are:
·          Investigations
·         Whodunit technique

Common elements in psychological thrillers are:
·         Mind games
·         Psychological themes
·          Stalking
·          Confinement/death-traps
·         Horror-of-personality
·         Obsession


The genre thriller can include the following sub-genres which may include elements of other genres:
  • Conspiracy thriller
  • Crime thriller
  • Disaster thriller
  • Erotic thriller
  • Legal thriller
  •  Medical thriller
  • Mystery thriller
  • Political thriller
  • Psychological thriller
  • Rape and Revenge films
  • Religious thriller
  • Supernatural
  • Techno thriller

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