Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Martin Rubin 1999 This book is in copyright. Designed for use as classroom texts, the books will be intellectually rigorous, yet written in a style that is lively and accessible to students and general audiences alike. Their approach will be methodologically broad, balancing theoretical and historical discussion with close readings of representative films. Each volume will provide a comprehensive account of its genre, from enduring classics to contemporary revisions, from marginal appropriations to international inflections, emphasizing its distinctive qualities as well as its cultural, historical, and critical contexts. General Editor Barry Keith Grant, Brock University, Ontario, Canada Genres in American Cinema examines the significance of American films in a series of single-authored volumes, each dedicated to a different genre. He has taughtfilmcourses at various institutions, and his publications include the book Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle.
Martin Rubin was the Film Program Director of the New York Cultural Center and an Associate Director of the San Francisco Film Festival. Martin Rubin's accessible, wide-ranging volume - designed to appeal to students and general filmgoers alike - shows how this visceral, supercharged genre has employed suspense, speed, and sensation to keep us on the edge of our seats throughout a century of American cinema.
Thrillers provides the first comprehensive, in-depth treatment of the movie thriller, from silent serials to stalkerfilms,from Alfred Hitchcock to Quentin Tarantino, from The Great Train Robbery to LA. They give us pleasure by making us uncomfortable: Anxiety, vulnerability, and fright are all part of the thrill. They charge our familiar modern world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. THRILLERS The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define.
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