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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"thriller"”.
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The Post-Dictatorial Thriller Form
… a theoretical examination of the Latin American thriller through the framework of post-dictatorial Chile, with a concluding look at the post civil war Central American context. I define the thriller as a loose narrative structure reminiscent of the basic detective story, but that fuses the …
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The French troubles thriller: genre, ideologies and representations (1971-1998)
… while the conflict was ongoing: the Troubles thriller. Thrillers on Irish matters are part of the virtually inexhaustible output of thrillers and crime fiction published from the 1960s to 1990s by popular publishers in France. Thrillers on the Troubles featured in several of the genre's most …
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Generic innovation and social change : the American thriller in the 1970s
… during which the political character of the thriller seems to have fundamentally changed in a hitherto unprecedented way. The thesis will concentrate on the American thriller in the 1970s, attending to the connection between readings of thrillers and crucial political events such as …
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Thriller, Horror, Hacker, Spy: The Hacker Genre in Film and Television from the 1970s to the 2010s
… these genre films draw on the crime, horror and thriller traditions to depict the tension and anxiety presented by the capabilities of this hacking and surveillance technology, as technology progresses and becomes more familiar to the audience, these films naturally lose their ability to elicit …
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Remodeling Beth
The screenplay "Remodeling Beth," a dramatic thriller, follows the story of a young woman who remodels the home where her mother died, while battling feelings of parental inadequacy, adulterous temptations, and the spirit of her dead mother. The story examines the various coping mechanisms that …
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Armed With A Heart
… movie as being a character driven, psychological thriller produced with a high production value. The aforementioned decisions are discussed at length. Documented feedback from test audiences is also reviewed in an attempt to objectively critique the final film.</p>
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Carnisaurs and Capital: Assertion and Preservation of Hegemony in the Novels of Michael Crichton
… popular science fiction sub-genre, the techno-thriller. Implementing Fredric Jameson's theory of the "political unconscious" and Ernst Mandel's analysis of the ideology of late capitalism, this thesis examines the novels of Michael Crichton, contending that while his novels provide the …
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Virgin State of Mind
Virgin State of Mind is a literary young adult thriller about a 17-year-old named Charlie who struggles to maintain normalcy in his life in the months following a devastating sexual assault, and how an unexpected reunion with his assaulter one snowy December night sets Charlie on a path toward …
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Yellow cake
… the back story for Yellow Cake, a political eco-thriller set in contemporary South Africa. Written in a terse lean style with interrupted plot lines and multiple points of view, it uses the genre to explore complex relationships and themes of a country in transition. Global and local power …
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Life with John
… elements of dark comedy and psychological thriller to explore ideas around the differences in people's perceptions of reality, but also around long-term relationships and alienation from self. Life with John aims to be a battlefield of perceptions, one that illustrates how mental …
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L' enquête dans les Maigret
… du roman policier, le "whodunif" et le "thriller". Nous procéderons ensuite à une analyse comparative de la motivation et de la thématique des romans de Simenon avec les autres volumes déjà examinés». Dans une troisième étape, nous tenterons de comprendre le déroulement de l'enquête du …
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Pricked
<p>A chilling domestic thriller about a young couple who discover that neither is who they pretend to be. Amy Jesionowski's novel Pricked tells the eerie story of a codependent relationship with dangerous twists. Twenty-four year old Jane Pluckett is an aspiring fashion designer in the hustle and …
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Transmission: Premium Television Characters Outside of the Gender Binary
… (2010-) and Job from Cinemax’s pulpy action-thriller<em> Banshee</em> (2013-) are rigorously scrutinized, revealing their surprisingly complex, confident, and transgressive queer power.</p>
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Loggerhead Ruse: An Immersive and Devised Theatrical Piece Using Audience Agency Within a Theatrical Story to Increase Theatre Engagement in America
… spiral into chaos, and at worst—murder. Blending thriller and horror elements, the story unfolds across three distinct timelines, each dictated by audience choices at pivotal moments. Each timeline uses the interplay between scripted scenes and improvisation. This experience is like a live-action …
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Thin Bodies
Thin Bodies, is a fictional thriller revolving around a retrospective, female voice. It is a short novel-length view into the insular community of the sorority, specifically in the U.S. Deep South. The town and university are both fictional, as are the characters, sororities, and events, but they …
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How Donald Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election Eclipsed Frank Underwood’s Election in ‘House of Cards’
… fictionalization of reality in the political thriller began to reflect reality. This thesis examines how the real and fictional presidents handled controversies, interacted with women, and associated with the alt-right movement; and attempts to establish how House of Cards lost its cynical …
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GLOOM. Conceptualització, disseny i desenvolupament d'n videojoc
… Aquesta aventura gràfica pertany al subgènere de thriller/terror psicològic, on el jugador es posarà en la pell d'un nen de 9 anys que haurà d'explorar i avançar dins un indret desconegut, a través de diferents nivells o capítols, per a donar resposta a les preguntes que es planteja inicialment …
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That Dark Remembered Day - a novel, and critical self-reflection on composition and the editorial process
… the novel to retain its pace as a psychological thriller, albeit one where the reader is told what happens at the outset, the remainder of the book tasked with explaining how and why. Crucial to this thesis is the relationship I developed with my appointed editor, specifically how conflict …
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Mapping inter-subject and inter-regional brain connectivity during free viewing of novel natural scenes
… the subjects viewed a movie clip from the 2005 thriller Redeye for the first time during the tMRI scan. Spatial and temporal correlations were examined during a forty minute movie clip in which subjects casually viewed the stimulus. Significant spatial overlap between the six scanned subjects …
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