Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains.
Vladimir Nabokov who taught at cornell university said that "In an Anglo-Saxon thriller, the villain is generally punished, and the strong silent man generally wins the weak babbling girl, but there is no governmental law in Western countries to ban a story that does not comply with a fond tradition, so that we always hope that the wicked but romantic fellow will escape scot-free and the good but dull chap will be finally snubbed by the moody heroine"
There was connotations of earlier thrillers in "Homer's Odyssey."
"The genre is a fascinatingly flexible form that can undermine audience complacency through a dramatic rendering of psychological, social, familial and political tensions and encourages sheltered but sensation-hungry audiences, in Hitchcock's phrase, "to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it's like." Quote From Source
Thrillers include assasination, jeprody, murder, mass murder and terrorism.
Sub Genres of Thrillers
Action Thriller - The Transporter(Leterrier, 2002)
Conspiracy Thriller - JFK (Stone, 1991)
Crime Thriller - Seven (Fincher, 1995)
Disaster Thriller - World trade centre (Stone, 2006)
Drama Thriller - The illusionist (Burger, 2006)
Erotic Thriller - Basic Instinct (Verhoeven, 1992)
Legal Thriller - The Firm (Pollack,1993)
Medical Thriller - Awake (Harold, 2007)
Political Thriller - The Agency (Kaczender, 1980)
Psychological Thriller - The Good Son (Ruben, 1993)
Spy Thriller - The Bourne Identity (Liman, 2002)
Techno Thriller - The Hunt for Red October (Mctiernan, 1990)
Religious Thriller - The Di Vinci Code (Howard, 2006)
Science Fiction Thrillers - Alien (Scott, 1979)
Text source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
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