This document discusses the thriller genre and the crime thriller sub-genre. It defines thrillers as using suspense, tension, and excitement to stimulate moods like anticipation, anxiety, and terror in viewers. Crime thrillers focus on the lives of criminals and criminal acts, often portraying them in an immoral or glorified way. They incorporate aspects of crime films and thrillers, with plots that center around serial killers, murders, or manhunts, building tension through both action and psychological elements by following both criminals and protagonists.

1. Crime Thriller
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2. What is a thriller?
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and
television programming that uses suspense,
tension and excitement as its main elements.
Thrillers stimulate the viewer's moods, giving
them a high level of anticipation, ultraheightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise,
anxiety and/or terror. Films of this genre tend to
be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fastpaced.
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3. Thriller Sub-Genres
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Conspiracy thriller – The bourne ultimatum
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Disaster thriller – Contagion
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Mystery thriller – Tinker tailor soldier spy
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Political thriller - Argo
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Psychological thriller – The shining
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Religious thriller – Rosemary’s baby
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Supernatural thriller - Sinister
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Techno thriller – North by north west
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Crime thriller – Pulp fiction

4. Crime thriller
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Crime thrillers are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The
technical approach to a crime film varies from realistic
portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil
doings of imaginary villains. Criminal acts are almost always
glorified in these movies.
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Long distance shots and close up shots. Low key lighting and
tracking shots. Weapons, law enforcement, criminals, slow
camera movements, fast paced sound, dolly shots and
establishing shots.
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In a crime thriller the hero is usually a Police Officer or a private
eye.
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Immoral
Meglo – Manical
Intimidating
Materialistic
Intelligent compared to inferior characters
Street - smart
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5. Is crime thriller a sub genre or
a hybrid genre?
! Crime Thriller film is a sub-genre that
incorporates the suspenseful aspects of a
thriller with a crime film plot. This sub-genre's
plot usually centers on a serial killer, murderer,
robbery, or manhunt. As opposed to
traditional crime films, the storyline focuses
both around the criminal and the
protagonist. Crime Thrillers use both action
and psychological aspects to build tension
and suspense.
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