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2023
Abstract Manohar Malgonkar’s The Garland Keepers (1980), a little-known, fast-paced, and highly entertaining political spy thriller, provides an entry point to show how the crisis of the Emergency—which conventional literary wisdom has led us to believe demands a similar crisis in form—elicits here a derivative reification of crisis, in ...
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Abstract Manohar Malgonkar’s The Garland Keepers (1980), a little-known, fast-paced, and highly entertaining political spy thriller, provides an entry point to show how the crisis of the Emergency—which conventional literary wisdom has led us to believe demands a similar crisis in form—elicits here a derivative reification of crisis, in ...
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Choice Reviews Online, 1999
The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure.
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The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure.
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Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 2005
Decades before the publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code turned millions of readers on to the excitement and glamour of early Christian history and biblical studies, a steady stream of novels—some obscure, some bestsellers were teaching the popular reading public about the thrills and chills of the academic study of Scriptures.
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Decades before the publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code turned millions of readers on to the excitement and glamour of early Christian history and biblical studies, a steady stream of novels—some obscure, some bestsellers were teaching the popular reading public about the thrills and chills of the academic study of Scriptures.
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East Meets West: The Reader Response Theory in Thriller Fictions
Procedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 This comparative literature study focuses on the elements of Reader Response Theory (RRT) in thriller fictions between two outstanding American and Malaysian novelists, Sidney Sheldon and Ramlee Awang Murshid.
Mohd Nazri, Latiff Azmi
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2023
What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible's sanitized 'orthodox' version? What covert motivations might inspire those who decide what the text of the Bible 'says' or what it 'means'? For some who ask conspiratorial questions like these, the Bible is the vulnerable victim of secular forces seeking to divest the USA of its ...
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What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible's sanitized 'orthodox' version? What covert motivations might inspire those who decide what the text of the Bible 'says' or what it 'means'? For some who ask conspiratorial questions like these, the Bible is the vulnerable victim of secular forces seeking to divest the USA of its ...
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2022
This is a detailed examination of vigilantism in 1970s American film, from its humble niche beginnings as a response to relaxing censorship laws to its growth into a unique subgenre of its own. Cary Edwards explores the contextual factors leading to this new cycle of films ranging from Joe (1970) and The French Connection (1971) to Dirty Harry (1971 ...
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This is a detailed examination of vigilantism in 1970s American film, from its humble niche beginnings as a response to relaxing censorship laws to its growth into a unique subgenre of its own. Cary Edwards explores the contextual factors leading to this new cycle of films ranging from Joe (1970) and The French Connection (1971) to Dirty Harry (1971 ...
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Thatcher's thrillers: British television thriller serials of the 1980s
1995Thatcher's Thrillers is a cultural-materialist account of the development of a television drama genre in Britain during the 1980s. The thesis initially addresses the fast-changing legislative context of television broadcasting during the Thatcher era and outlines developments in drama formats and programming during this period.
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Abstract This chapter looks at Charade and Wait Until Dark to analyze how, in playing a woman threatened with deception and murder in thrillers, Hepburn adjusted her screen persona to reflect her real age, reversed the conventional role of women in this genre through her strong female characters who confront danger on their own terms ...
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