Thriller Films and Alfred Hitchcock

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This paper discusses and analyzes Alfred Hitchcock's spy thrillers, "Sabotage", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "The Lady Vanishes" and "The 39 Steps", and identifies consistencies in the thriller genre.

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"According to Martin Rubin, the label thriller describes a cinematic and literary genre which has certain identifiable characteristics and which represents a quantitative as well as qualitative concept. Rubin suggests that virtually all narrative films could be considered thrilling to some degree because they contain suspense and action and a sense of departure from the routine world into a realm that is more marvelous and exciting. However, to be a cinematic thriller, a film must meet other conditions, such as the doubling..."

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