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Thrillers
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ISBN: 0521588391 0521581834 0511624417 0511823266 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure. They give us pleasure by making us uncomfortable - on the edge of our seats.Thrillers provides a comprehensive treatment of this genre, from silent serials to stalker films, from Alfred Hitchcock to Quentin Tarantino, from The Great Train Robbery to L.A. Confidential. This accessible, wide-ranging volume is designed to appeal to students and general filmgoers alike, and shows how this visceral, double-faced film genre has aroused our intense sensations throughout decades of American cinema.

Les écrans meurtriers : essais sur les scènes spéculaires du thriller
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ISBN: 2871300976 Year: 2002 Publisher: Liège Editions du Céfal


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The Psycho records
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ISBN: 0231181124 9780231181129 9780231181136 0231181132 0231543492 9780231543491 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Wallflower Press,

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"The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called "psychos" if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock turned the term into a catch-all phrase for a range of psychotic and psychopathic symptoms or dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the American heartland. Drawing on his experience with German film, Hitchcock packed inside his shower stall the essence of schauer, the German cognate meaning "horror." Later serial horror film production has post-traumatically flashed back to Hitchcock's shower scene. In the end, though, this book argues the effect is therapeutically finite. This extensive case study summons the genealogical readings of philosopher and psychoanalyst Laurence Rickels. The book opens not with another reading of Hitchcock's 1960 film but with an evaluation of various updates to vampirism over the years. It concludes with a close look at the rise of demonic and infernal tendencies in horror movies since the 1990s and the problem of the psycho as our most uncanny double in close quarters."--Publisher's website.


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Crime, detective, espionage, mystery and thriller fiction and film : a comprehensive bibliography of critical writing through 1979
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ISBN: 031322062X Year: 1980 Publisher: Westport (Conn.): Greenwood

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Film --- 343.9 --- 791.43-23 --- 82-312.4 --- Crime in literature --- -Detective and mystery films --- -Detective and mystery stories --- -Spy films --- Spy stories --- -Cloak and dagger fiction --- Espionage --- Espionage stories --- Spies --- Spy fiction --- Spy novels --- Spy thrillers (Fiction) --- Thrillers, Spy (Fiction) --- Fiction --- Cloak and dagger films --- Espionage films --- Secret agent films --- Secret service films --- Motion pictures --- Crime --- Detective and mystery fiction --- Detective and mystery stories --- Detectives --- Mystery stories --- Crime films --- Police films --- Criminologie --(algemeen) --- Melodramatische films. Thrillers --- Detectiveroman. Misdaadroman --- Indexes --- History and criticism --- -Indexes. --- -Indexes --- Detective and mystery films --- Espionage in literature --- Spies in literature --- Spy films --- Suspense fiction --- Thrillers (Motion pictures) --- -Criminologie --(algemeen) --- 82-312.4 Detectiveroman. Misdaadroman --- 791.43-23 Melodramatische films. Thrillers --- 343.9 Criminologie --(algemeen) --- -82-312.4 Detectiveroman. Misdaadroman --- Cloak and dagger fiction --- Film thrillers --- Movie thrillers --- Psycho thrillers (Motion pictures) --- Psychological thrillers (Motion pictures) --- Psychothrillers (Motion pictures) --- Suspense films --- Thriller films --- Thriller movies --- Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) --- Suspense tales --- Tales, Suspense --- Thrillers (Fiction)

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