Thriller Sub-Genres and Hybrids

Thriller as a genre:

In media, genre is a loose category of media products. Inclusion into a genre is covered by sets of codes and conventions and iconography.

Film genres can be distinguished into two different categories:

ICONOGRAPHY: A set of visual visual representations in a media text, that taken together indicate its genre. It is often focused around mise en scene.

CODES AND CONVENTIONS: The signifiers we expect to see in a genre; a system of 'rules' that are established by practice and through which producers contruct texts in terms of genre and audiences de-construct them. Our expectations of a genre in terms of elements such as character, plot, sound and them.

Thriller movies as GENRE HYBRIDS and THRILLER SUBGENRE examples:

-Sci-Fi Thrillers (iRobot)

-Historical Thrillers(Elizabeth The Golden Age)

-Spy/Espionage Thriller(James Bond)

-Legal Thrillers( The Pelican Brief)

-Political Thrillers(Conspiracy Theory)

-Psychological/ Supernatural Thriler(The Sixth Sense)

-Romantic Thriller(Titanic)

Sub-Genres In Terms Of Audiences:

Each and every person has there own taste and preferences towards the types of movies that enjoy the most, and the different film genres aim to appeal to certain age groups, different personalities and gender. For example Historical movies would appeal to the older age and perhaps people who show an interest in History, whereas Espionage Thrillers which contain a lot fast paced action would appeal to the younger variety of audiences ranging from mid teens to mid twenties and mainly males, finally Romantic typed Thrillers would appeal to mainly females and even couples.

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Characters in Thrillers:

-Main characters are usually placed in menacing situations from which escape usually seems impossible.

-The protagonist is often unsuspectingly placed in a dangerous situation.

-The menace id often abstract, uncertain or shadowy.

Common Characters in Thrillers:

-Criminals(fugatives)

-Stalkers

-Assasins

-Innocent victims, caught up in events

-Police

The Femme Fatale:

-A mysterious, attractive(seductive, sexual)

-They usually have power over men, which leads the men onto making risky, irrational decisions which always leads to downfalls.

(Maralyn Monroe playing the role of the femme fatale in 'Don't Bother To Knock)

Themes in Thrillers:

-Terroism

-Political Conspiracy

-Espionage

-persuits

-Dangerous obsessions

-Phsycological Crime

-Supernatural