Monday, 14 December 2009

Thriller Genre

Thriller is a very broad genre, it is characterized by fast pacing, frequent action and a resourceful hero. However there is no specific setting for a thriller, it is such a wide genre that it includes different ends of the spectrum, from crime thrillers, spy thrillers all the way to techno thrillers, medical thrillers and even erotic thrillers. Thriller is full of these many subgenres, that help divide up the genre as a whole and easily allows us to classify each specific film easily.
Thriller are films that are known to provoke intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Strictly speaking the genre can be defined as a film that relentlessly pursues a single-minded goal. Thriller films are meant to continually have the audience on the edge of their seats as it leads up to a nail-biting climax.
Due to some of the feelings that evoke from the thriller genre it can often get confused with a very similar horror genre. this often leads to the hybrid genres in which both types of genre are intertwined together.
An example a of early thriller films are those by Hitchcock, who is regarded as the creator of the thriller genre. Alfred Hitchcock has helped to shape modern-day thrillers. His work meant that he was acknowledged as the master of the thriller genre. He would manipulate the audience's fears and desires. This has lead to him being the influence of many thriller films and arguably the thriller genre itself.

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