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The document discusses several subgenres of thriller films, including crime thrillers which focus on criminals rather than police and involve crimes like serial murders and heists. Detective thrillers feature a hero investigating powerful enemies. Erotic thrillers emphasize sexual relationships. Courtroom thrillers involve lawyers dealing with moral decisions. Supernatural thrillers include supernatural elements like superheroes or vampires. Psychological thrillers have conflicts occurring inside characters' minds.
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The document discusses conventions and techniques used in psychological thriller films to impact audiences. It analyzes three iconic psychological thrillers from different decades - The Shining (1980), Se7en (1995), and Shutter Island (2010). Common conventions discussed include unreliable narrators, plot twists, exploring themes of reality, identity and death. Literary devices like stream of consciousness and backstories are examined in these films. The document aims to understand how directors achieve lasting psychological effects on audiences through these cinematic techniques and conventions.
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This document discusses the genre of thrillers. It defines thrillers as plots that provide excitement, tension, danger and uncertainty through devices like villains, obstacles, and cliffhangers. It explores common characteristics of thrillers including fast pacing, terror, anxiety and surprise. It also outlines several subgenres of thrillers like psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, mystery thrillers, action thrillers, horror thrillers, erotic thrillers, torturing thrillers, spy thrillers and techno-thrillers. It provides examples for each subgenre and discusses common characters found in thrillers. It also analyzes the American film director David Fincher and his body of thriller films.
Subgenres of a thriller moe ahmed new 9
This document outlines several subgenres of thriller films including: legal thriller, disaster thriller, conspiracy thriller, crime thriller, mystery thriller, psychological thriller, supernatural thriller, and action thriller. It provides a brief 1-2 sentence description of each subgenre focusing on common elements like the protagonist, types of conflicts, settings, and themes.
Genre research
Horror films seek to elicit negative emotional reactions from viewers by playing on primal fears. They often feature startling scenes involving the macabre, supernatural, or unknown to tap into viewers' nightmares and hidden fears. Common horror movie themes include something threatening people in or around an isolated house and a killer pursuing a single victim or group. Successful horror movies employ unsettling lighting, costumes, and props to build atmosphere and fright.
Thriller
The document discusses the thriller genre and its various subgenres. It defines thrillers as films that create tension and suspense through shocking narrative devices. Key elements include climaxes, villains, mystery, and good vs evil plots. The main subgenres covered are crime thrillers, which focus on solving crimes; mystery thrillers, which involve political assassinations and terrorism; psychological thrillers, which explore mental states; science fiction thrillers, which incorporate futuristic technology; and supernatural thrillers, which feature the supernatural or religious themes.
Transition Project
Horror and thriller films both aim to elicit negative emotional reactions from viewers. Horror films play on primal fears through shocking scenes that don't occur daily, and may include fantasy or supernatural elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate anticipation and uncertainty through suspense and tension. The eight key elements of thrillers are: the protagonist faces death; antagonists are initially stronger; the protagonist cannot be defeated; a mystery must be solved from the protagonist's perspective; actions are realistic; themes of justice and morality; and innocence in a corrupt world.
Genre research
This document discusses different film genres including thriller, drama, sci-fi, and psychological thriller. It defines what a genre is and provides examples of each. A genre categorizes a film based on its narrative elements. Thrillers build suspense through character development while dramas focus on realistic characters and relationships. Psychological thrillers emphasize the psychology of the characters over plot and allow audiences to connect through shared mental experiences.
the genre of Thriller
The document discusses the genre of thrillers. It defines thrillers as films with exciting, suspenseful plots. Common thriller elements include an antagonist who aims to harm the protagonist, steadily increasing suspense, and an unpredictable plot twist. Thrillers also typically use non-diegetic sounds and scores to build suspense and suggest danger. Settings are often remote or mysterious areas that isolate characters. The document provides examples from films like The Shining and Psycho to illustrate these techniques.
Question 1
The document discusses conventions of the thriller genre in film. It notes that thrillers aim to create suspense, tension, and excitement for audiences by stimulating moods like anticipation, anxiety, and terror. Common elements of thrillers include conventional character archetypes, plots focused on puzzles/investigations, violence and crime, plot twists and cliffhangers. Tension is key and achieved through techniques like music, lighting, camera angles and movements. Thrillers can represent social groups through age, gender, and class stereotypes in victims and antagonists.
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A thriller is a genre that aims to thrill or excite the audience through tension, suspense and anticipation. It often involves a villain who presents obstacles for the protagonist to overcome. Key characteristics of thrillers include being fast-paced, generating uncertainty, anxiety, surprise, terror and excitement through plot devices like cliffhangers and misleading information. Common subgenres are psychological thrillers focusing on mental battles and crime thrillers revolving around criminal plots and their detection.
Genre of films
Films are typically categorized into genres based on their settings, music, characters and other elements. Some of the major genres include horror, comedy, thriller, action, romance, and sci-fi. Horror films aim to create tension and fright by depicting supernatural or realistic frightening situations. Comedies intend to make audiences laugh through constant jokes. Thrillers generate excitement, tension and doubt through their storylines. Romance films focus on the themes of love and relationships, often facing obstacles. Science fiction commonly portrays technology and its potential dangers through imaginative futuristic settings involving elements like paranormal abilities.
Forms and conventions of a thriller
Thriller films follow certain conventions to build suspense in the audience. They often center around crimes like a serial killer on the loose. Multiple storylines combine to confuse and intrigue viewers as they try to follow the plot. Flashbacks and documentary styles are also used effectively. The protagonist typically has a weakness that the antagonist exploits to put them in danger. This drives up suspense until the climax where the protagonist defeats the antagonist. Themes of identity and mystery through dramatic irony keep audiences engaged as they try to solve enigmas hinted at throughout.
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subgenres of a thriller films
- 1. SUB GENRES OF THRILLER FILMS
- 2. CRIME THRILLER A crime thriller is a suspenseful account of a successful or failed crime or crimes. These films often focus on the criminals rather than a policeman. Central topics of these films include serial killers/murders, robberies, chases, shootouts, heists and double-crosses. EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8evyE9TuYk
- 3. DETECTIVE THRILLER A detective thriller is like a crime thriller and a conspiracy where there is a hero/heroine coming up agents a powerful enemies. EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rRn8kM4-ds
- 4. EROTIC THRILLER A erotic or a sex and relationship thriller is where a sexual relationship plays a important role in the film. EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKeDU92Ydg
- 5. COURTROOM THRILLER Courtroom thrillers are also know as Legal thriller and in them the characters are mainly working as lawyers or as their employees. The decisions between right and wrong are always seen strongly in this type of thriller. EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=xU4ReVEemN0
- 6. SUPERNATURAL THRILLER In Supernatural thrillers there is always seen powers from the other worlds and the characters might be some supernatural creatures such as superheroes or vampires. EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hIjJe0OYRoU
- 7. PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Psychological thriller means that the conflicts that are seen in the film are mostly inside main characters' head and turn more psychical right at the end when the film gets its final resolution. The characters in psychological thrillers are usually pulled to the conflicts by accident or because of their own curiosity. The attention in the film is often created by the fact that lot of the conflicts are happening inside characters' heads and the audience can never know what is actually the truth. EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=8VP5jEAP3K4