Northrop Frye: Heroic romance
Frye argued that thrillers were stories that took ordinary people and threw them into extraordinary situations
E.G., Lara croft, she is a relic hunter who, at times, has to fight for her life and sometimes others, making her a heroine
John Cawelti: The Exotic
Cawelti argued that thrillers took the elements of ordinary life and added an exotic element
E.G. i am legend, an ordinary country is turned into a waste land and it has exotic animals in the film like lions.
W.H. Matthews: Mazes and Labyrinthes
Matthews writes about how humans having a fascination for physical puzzles- often seen in mazes and labyrinthes.
Thrillers often use the idea of a mysterious quest in a confines location that feels like a labyrinth
E.G. matrix
Pascal Bonitzer: Partial Vision
Bonitzer discusses how in thrillers the audience is given a partial view of things
With important things being obscurred
E.G. Saw, You only see a puppet which is supposed to be the main villian, also, you wonder how the people get there.
Noel Carroll: Question and Answer
Argues that thrillers are structered around a series of questions for which the audience is led to ask themselves or others
E.G. lost, why were thet picked to be on the island? what that island? ETC...
Roland Barthes: Enigma codes
Barthes analysed all narratives in terms of coeds that operate moment by moment.
Enigma codes- moments in narrative where the audience is led to ask a question.
In thrillers, enigma codes are very important for telling stories.
E.G. resident evil- apocalypse, she (alice), speaks at the beginning, leading you to ask a question, and some way through the film, she speaks roughly the same lines into a camera that she hold in front of the directors camera, as a kind of audio blog.
Frye argued that thrillers were stories that took ordinary people and threw them into extraordinary situations
E.G., Lara croft, she is a relic hunter who, at times, has to fight for her life and sometimes others, making her a heroine
John Cawelti: The Exotic
Cawelti argued that thrillers took the elements of ordinary life and added an exotic element
E.G. i am legend, an ordinary country is turned into a waste land and it has exotic animals in the film like lions.
W.H. Matthews: Mazes and Labyrinthes
Matthews writes about how humans having a fascination for physical puzzles- often seen in mazes and labyrinthes.
Thrillers often use the idea of a mysterious quest in a confines location that feels like a labyrinth
E.G. matrix
Pascal Bonitzer: Partial Vision
Bonitzer discusses how in thrillers the audience is given a partial view of things
With important things being obscurred
E.G. Saw, You only see a puppet which is supposed to be the main villian, also, you wonder how the people get there.
Noel Carroll: Question and Answer
Argues that thrillers are structered around a series of questions for which the audience is led to ask themselves or others
E.G. lost, why were thet picked to be on the island? what that island? ETC...
Roland Barthes: Enigma codes
Barthes analysed all narratives in terms of coeds that operate moment by moment.
Enigma codes- moments in narrative where the audience is led to ask a question.
In thrillers, enigma codes are very important for telling stories.
E.G. resident evil- apocalypse, she (alice), speaks at the beginning, leading you to ask a question, and some way through the film, she speaks roughly the same lines into a camera that she hold in front of the directors camera, as a kind of audio blog.
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