A Research On Genres Of Contemporary American Thriller Film

Along with centuries of rise and fall of Hollywood, thriller obtain a new process vitality in the contemporary.To investigate its reason, thriller not only has standardized conventional support, but also has outstanding performance in grasping the audience's psychology. Because of the film's spiritual pursuit and it's straightaway expressing, this kind of films which are accepted by all people, mainly focusing on the popular entertainment , get rid of the elite line of auteur system and old boring constraints in types and models. Therefore, it is meaningful and of great importance to do innovative and inheritance research into it.This thesis is naturally divided into four parts, according to the different stages of genre criticism, which has changed in different times. First of all, on form and connotation, they manage to mark a clear boundary between thrillers and horror movies. Secondly, on the audience's psychology acceptance, they try to present the real charm of psychological thriller by analysing how this kind of psychology comes into being and how it expresses. Furthermore, on the awareness of producing, they focus on the successful genre films to analyse the main awareness and ideas of producers. Lastly, on cultural implication, the creative and further understanding and expressing to female image, religious tragic and Alienation Image broaden our horizon and make us analyse the thriller in depth.Knowing these four parts, we can not master the internal logic of the whole system, but understand and overcome the defect of this genre criticism. Afterwards, we can enhance the rationality of analysing the thriller.