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H. Jaber, Maysaa. "Shame and Alcoholism in Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 5, no. 4 (2021): 60–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol5no4.5.

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The aim of this article is to showcase the connection between the portrayal of shame and alcohol addiction, on the one hand, and the mystery of murder and violence against women, on the other, in Paula Hawkins’s thriller The Girl on the Train (2015). This article argues that Hawkins’s book uses the thriller formula to reveal the links between gender and violence by delving into the vulnerability, suffering and resilience of the female characters through the stories of alcoholic troubled protagonist, Rachael Watson and the mystery of Megan Hipwell’s murder.
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Creaney, Morgan. "A Mystery Thriller: Paul's Use of the Term 'Mystery' in the New Testament." Expository Times 114, no. 9 (2003): 296–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001452460311400903.

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Jones, Clara. "‘Mystery at the Lilacs’ (1938): Elizabeth Bowen's Thriller Serial for Home and Country." Literature & History 27, no. 1 (2018): 3–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197318755671.

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This article introduces a rediscovered 1938 serial by Elizabeth Bowen ‘specially written’ for Home and Country, the monthly organ of the National Federation of Women's Institutes. It situates ‘Mystery at the Lilacs’ within the periodical culture of ‘ Home and Country’, paying particular attention to Bowen's engagement with the social and cultural debates that played out across its pages, and considers how Bowen's serial compares with her other contemporary literary projects. Far from being an aberration or curiosity, this serial overlaps thematically with Bowen's other interwar short stories. Self-reflexively concerned with the status of the writer in the community and preoccupied with the relationship between ‘high’ and popular culture, ‘Mystery at the Lilacs’ has much to tell us about Bowen's thinking about politics and culture in the interwar period.
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Haryati, Haryati. "Presupposition in The Mystery and Thriller Film of “Escape from Pretoria"." Journal of Pragmatics Research 4, no. 1 (2022): 122–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/jopr.v4i2.122-136.

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Presupposition itself has been a cause of the diversity of interpretations since presupposition sticks to utterances, sometimes unsaid clearly, that will provide implied meanings based on the context that is being talked about. The purposes of the study are to investigate three major points: the kinds of presupposition, their functions, and the percentage of each presupposition in the mystery and thriller film script of “Escape from Pretoria” by Francis Annan. This research used a qualitative method to analyze the obtained data. The observation is also used to collect data in which data are obtained from film scripts. The writer applies Yule’s theory (1996) to analyze the presupposition kinds, Halliday’s theory (2003) to analyze presupposition functions, and Subana’s formula to gain the percentage of each presupposition. As a result, there were 177 presuppositions obtained in the film script, with 166 existential presuppositions (93.8%), six factive presuppositions (3.4%), four lexical presuppositions (2.2%,) and one counterfactual presupposition (0.6%). From 177 presuppositions, the data were classified into 23 regulatory functions (13.0%), 2 interactional functions (1.1%), 57 representational functions (32.2%), 79 personal functions (44.6%), 1 imaginative function (0.6%), 4 instrumental functions (2.3%) and 11 heuristic functions (6.2%). Therefore, the dominant presupposition is existential, and the dominant function of presupposition is personal. Keywords: film script of Escape from Pretoria, pragmatics, presupposition
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Khabotniakova, P. S. "Metaphorical nomination of biblical image-symbol in Frank Peretti’s mystery thriller." Science and Education a New Dimension VI(183), no. 54 (2018): 30–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31174/send-ph2018-183vi54-08.

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Killmeier, Matthew A. "More than Monsters:Dark Fantasy, the Mystery-Thriller and Horror's Heterogeneous History." Journal of Radio & Audio Media 20, no. 1 (2013): 165–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2013.777345.

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Möldre, Aile. "Serijinės literatūros vertimai Estijos laikraščiuose XX a. pradžioje (1900–1940 m.)." Knygotyra 82 (July 16, 2024): 115–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/knygotyra.2024.82.5.

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The paper explores the serialised novels and stories in the two leading Estonian daily newspapers, Päewaleht and Postimees, the majority of which were translations. The approach, combining book and translation history, is driven by the two issues debated in the media in 1900–1940: the desire to distance from the dominant German and Russian cultural influences and search for a new orientation; the categories of literature serialised in newspapers including the proportion of popular literature (genres like mystery, thrillers, romance, etc.) and the concern of intellectuals about its growth. The study uses the years 1906–1911 and 1928–1933 as a sample for content analysis of the feuilleton sections of the two newspapers in order to examine the changes in source literatures and the category of literature. The results demonstrate that German literature still dominated the serialised fiction translations at the beginning of the century, although many other literatures were used as sources. In the independent Republic of Estonia, in the 1920s and 1930s, Anglo-American literature occupied the leading position in accordance with the general cultural orientation. Still, German had not become marginal, and the range of other source literatures was quite diverse. The proportion of popular literature, mystery novels, and romance above all, started to increase in Päewaleht since 1906, becoming dominant in the 1920s and 1930s. Postimees also started to include some mystery and thriller novels in the selection, but in general, remained true to its preference for literary fiction. Thus, the agency of the Editors-in-Chief and editorial boards can be seen in the choice of works. The overall abundance of translated popular fiction in the book market and periodicals caused the protests of writers and educational circles that culminated with the suggestion to introduce a translation tax, which was, however, abandoned.
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Hamilton, Scott Eric. "The Murphy Murder Mystery: An Irish “post-mortem situation”." Estudios Irlandeses, no. 16 (March 17, 2021): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24162/ei2021-9987.

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This paper will propose that Beckett’s affinity for crime and mystery fiction also contributes to Murphy. The novel will be examined on the proposed hypothesis that Murphy’s death, so-called, is conspicuously left ambiguous to a certain degree, rendering it a type of mystery narrative. Approaching the mysterious death as something like a detective fiction “cold case”, the events of Murphy, and clues left by Beckett throughout the prose that follows, I will investigate whether or not Murphy does actually die toward the end of the book. Although Beckett does not present these aspects in the traditional form of “thriller” fiction, he does use them to create a modernist aesthetic which challenges traditions, identifications of being, identity, representation and space regarding both the individual and the social context of the Irish “postmortem situation” depicted in Murphy.
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Abdulridha, Sabrina Abdulkadhom, and Amany Abdulkadhom Abdulridha. "Symbolic Artistry in Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 4, no. 2 (2023): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jls.4.2.2.

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In a quest of exploring his potentials and developing his personal interests, the young Dan Brown decided to direct his sails toward the world of fiction. After penning several literary pieces, such as Digital Fortress (1998), Angels and Demons (2000) and Deception Point (2001), he succeeded in publishing his groundbreaking thriller The Da Vinci Code in 2003, which quickly captured the eye of many readers around the world. Whether admirers or critics of this famous literary piece, over two hundred million copies were sold out globally for its “twisty adrenaline-fueled yet cerebral” plot (Alter, 2020). He owns a book collection of five thrillers that are labelled as ‘The Robert Langdon Series.’ The first book of this collection is Angels and Demons. It follows up the journey of a Harvard professor named Robert Langdon, who is summoned to unlock the mystery of four missing cardinals who disappeared just before the election of a new Pope in Vatican City was about to take place. With the help of Vittoria Vetra, the daughter of the anti-matter scientist Leonardo Vetra at CERN, Langdon attempts to save their lives. It requires the encryption of symbols and other forms of art to successfully reach the final whereabouts of the cardinals. Their search also implicitly reveals that there is more to
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Kajtoch, Wojciech. "Postmodernistyczna powieść w oczach szkolnego polonisty." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 11, no. 2 (2020): 287–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.6511.

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The article is an analysis of the well-known and popular novel by Jerzy Sosnowski – “Apocrypha of Aglaya”. Although the problem of the unusual complexity of the story and the mystery of the sense within it is usually raised, the author of the article believes that the work can be examined with simple analytical tools, without resorting to analytical instruments more complex than those used at school. Obviously “Apocrypha of Aglaya” draws on various traditions and conventions, but it is generally based on known plot patterns. However, it is original and valuable, it contains important statements about the modern condition of man, without ceasing to be a romance and a thriller. The article is methodologically structuralist and opposes postmodern research trends.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mystery Thriller"

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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Deuces Down: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. http://amzn.com/1588382273.

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"Bored Wall Street whiz kid Donald Youngblood returns to his East Tennessee hometown and on a whim gets a Private Investigator license. Joined by his best friend Billy Two Feathers, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, they open Cherokee Investigations and for a few years work small cases and just hang out. Then Don is summoned by the rich and powerful Joseph Fleet to find his missing daughter and son-in-law. As Don and Billy go through the motions of investigating the disappearance, a sinister plot unfolds complicated by a restless girlfriend, a New York mob boss and a killer on the loose with Don in his sights. From the backwoods of Tennessee to the coast of Florida to the streets of New York and half way around the world, Donald Youngblood, with the help of some well-connected friends and a nose for trouble, chases an elusive and deadly foe to extract the ultimate revenge and realize the chase will change his life forever."--BOOK JACKET.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1000/thumbnail.jpg
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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Devils Dancing: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://amzn.com/0895873982.

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"In Keith Donnelly's third mystery featuring private investigator Donald Youngblood (after Three Deuces Down and Three Days Dead), all the usual players return in Don's biggest case yet. His quiet home life has become a bit more complicated with live-in love Mary Sanders and quasi-daughter Lacy Malone ruling the roost. Then a father's plea for justice for his dead daughter leads Don into a maze of murder as he tries to unravel the mystery of a strange tattoo that is part of a deadly game with rules so sinister only the devil himself would approve. As the body count mounts and the murders draw national attention, Don and an old FBI nemesis close in on a deranged killer who will not stop until he is either caught or killed. Matter get even more complicated when a young mother ends up in a coma, an old friend is in bad need of counseling, and a drug kingpin calls in a favor. As Don juggles two cases with the help of partner Billy Two Feathers and a new ally, Oscar Morales, he wonders if becoming a private investigator was such a good idea in the first place."--AMAZON<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1001/thumbnail.jpg
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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Days Dead: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. http://amzn.com/0895873729.

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"When Tennessee private investigator Donald Youngblood solved the Fairchild case in Three Deuces Down, he vowed never again to go hunting for a missing person. With live-in-love and Mountain Center cop, Mary Sanders, and his faithful black Standard Poodle, Don's life has settled back into its old routine. All of that is about to change. An attractive, precocious teenage girl shows up in his office one morning needing help finding her missing mother. Now, Don must track down a mother gone wrong while trying to find her abandoned daughter a proper home before child welfare gets the scent. To complicate matters, an old flame is being harassed by a former boyfriend, who is not what he appears to be, and she is begging Don to do something about it. Tracking down the missing mother with the help of his best friend and partner and Don's ever-dangerous new friend, the trail of clues leads to a Las Vegas confrontation where Don comes face to face with henchmen of a Vegas bad boy, and nearly pays the ultimate price."--AMAZON<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1002/thumbnail.jpg
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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Deadly Drops: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. http://amzn.com/089587587X.

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"In the fourth Donald Youngblood mystery more than a year has passed since Don closed the file on the Three Devils case. His personal life is trending upward, his business is booming, and no one has come to him with a case likely to get him killed. All of that changes when Jessica Crane walks into Don's office, asking him to look into the apparent heart-attack death of her husband. Don is convinced that Mrs. Crane's request is just the delusion of a grieving widow. As he goes through the motions of his investigations, he uncovers a mysterious note and a 20-year-old photograph of a group of soldiers known as the Southside Seven. Don soon thinks the grieving widow might be on to something. The Silver Star, a soldier with a stress problem, an Army Ranger black ops mission gone wrong, a mysterious assassin, and a missing vial are all pieces to the puzzle that Don races to fit together before anyone else dies. In the desert of New Mexico, the bayou country of Louisiana, the mean streets of Memphis, and small towns in South Carolina and Kentucky, a haunting mystery unfolds as Donald Youngblood uncovers a startling secret from Desert Storm that haunted the seven men who shared it."--AMAZON<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1003/thumbnail.jpg
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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Dragons Doomed: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. http://amzn.com/0895876272.

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"Outside the small town of Saddle Boot, West Virginia, a bulldozer uncovers a long-buried body. Only four living people know it's that of drifter Johnny Cross. But Johnny Cross was not who he appeared to be. In the early-morning hours a few days later, in Mountain Center, Tennessee, a body is dumped in a downtown back alley, a young female dead less than twenty-four hours. Over the next few weeks, two more dead females turn up in East Tennessee. A serial killer with an unusual signature is on the loose. The only thing that connects these events is private investigator Donald Youngblood. Don knows the identities of the body in West Virginia and the dead women dumped in East Tennessee. He also knows the bodies are personal messages for him from a killer seeking revenge. A new and deadly game has begun. In this unique double sequel to Three Days Dead and Three Devils Dancing, Youngblood wrestles with two separate and distinct cases: finding the true identity of Johnny Cross and tracking down a serial killer who seems to be in a big hurry for a final showdown."--AMAZON<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1004/thumbnail.jpg
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Coleman, Isaiah. "Someone to Live For, Someone to Die For." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1606991158021014.

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Waage, Fred. "The Birth Spoon." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. http://amzn.com/1939289572.

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This mystery is set in the early 1980s and based on actual events. A high-school student unearths dark and deadly secrets of his Appalachian community. The explosive consequences forever mark his own life, his family's, and his town's.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1009/thumbnail.jpg
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Bronson, IV Theodore Lawrence. "Forgotten Depths." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2021. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/975.

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Pratt, Scott. "River on Fire: Disscussion/Study Guide Included." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://www.amzn.com/B01N3UMM5E/.

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River on Fire" is the story of Randall Smith, a foundling orphan growing up in the midwestern United States in the late 1960s. Without the intimate guidance of loving parents, Randall struggles to understand a dangerous and confusing world during one of the most tumultuous times in modern history. Immensely readable and filled with humor and irony, "River on Fire" will both warm and break your heart. A Discussion/Study Guide is included at the end of the novel.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1031/thumbnail.jpg
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Dhand, Neal. "Sleep shift /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/9881.

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Books on the topic "Mystery Thriller"

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Hohlbein, Wolfgang. Azrael: Mystery-Thriller. dotbooks, 2016.

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Bolaji, Omoseye. Tebogo Investigates: A mystery thriller. Drufoma, 2000.

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Stine, Megan. Thriller diller. Random House, 1989.

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Kerchalez, Y. Breizh thriller. An Alarc'h, 2006.

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Leonard, Elmore. Glitz: Thriller. Wahlström & Widstrand, 1987.

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Scieszka, Jon. Thriller. Walden Pond Press, 2011.

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Malfi, Ronald. Passenger: Mystery Thriller. Voodoo Press, 2013.

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Graser, Thomas. GOLDAUGEN Mystery-Thriller. Independently Published, 2017.

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Knochengrube: Mystery-Thriller. FISCHER Taschenbuch, 2012.

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Quälgeist: Mystery-Thriller. Independently Published, 2021.

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Book chapters on the topic "Mystery Thriller"

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Peele, Jordan. "Get Out (Horror/Mystery/Thriller), 2017." In Script Analysis. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003138853-18.

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Dibattista, Maria. "The Lowly Art of Murder Modernism and the Case of the Free Woman." In High And Low Moderns. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195082661.003.0010.

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Abstract When Graham Greene designated his dark detective thrillers as entertainments, he was, perhaps, being commercially shrewd in soliciting a certain kind of popular readership. He was also being aesthetically quite correct. Nowhere is the boundary line between high and low culture more finely drawn than at the crossover between “lit-erature” and detective fiction. Does anyone speak, except in provocation or misprision, of a detective novel? Crime thriller, detective story, murder mystery, yes, but even in common parlance, detective and novel keep their distance, even if they do not completely part company.
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Sweeney, David. "The OA and Genre." In The OA. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859425.003.0005.

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Netflix categorises The OA generically as 'Sci Fi', 'Mystery', 'Thriller' and 'Drama' while IMDb classifies the series as 'Drama, Fantasy, Mystery', only partly intersecting with Netflix's categorisation. The OA is close, as is discussed, to the work of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It recalls too Grant Morrison's Vertigo comic book series The Invisibles, itself influenced by Dick, which displays similar themes, and also the Wachowskis’ 1999 film The Matrix and its two sequels (2003), which in turn show an influence from Morrison. Like these works, The OA can be described as a gnostic text, that is, one which is concerned with the acquisition of spiritual knowledge which leads to an understanding of reality's true nature. This is an aspect of another Netflix series, Sense8 co-created by the Wachowskis with J. Michael Stracynski, whose Babylon 5 (1993-97) also contained gnostic themes and to which The OA is compared. First, however, the chapter addresses the mystery and SF elements of the series as well as those from another genre not identified in either Netflix's or IMDb's classification: that of horror. The chapter concludes with a consideration of The OA as part of the emergent ‘New Age’ genre.
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Lück, Michael. "Mystery, Crime, Thriller. Vom Sog dunkler Vergangenheit im Hollywood-Kino der 2000er Jahre." In Hollywood Reloaded. Schüren Verlag, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783741000294-171.

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Curti, Roberto, and Roberto Curti. "Under the Sign of the Giallo." In Blood and Black Lace. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325932.003.0003.

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This chapter explores the significance of German participation in the film Blood and Black Lace. It discusses how Italy had signed a co-production agreement with West Germany in 1962 that started the passage from period Gothic to a thriller set in the present day. It also explains the Italian film makers' intention of joining the successful thread of the German so-called “krimis,” the murder mysteries inspired by the works of Edgar Wallace and produced by Preben Philipsen's Rialto film company in 1959. The chapter focuses on the distinct and well-defined tradition of mystery in Italy. It describes the genre known as “giallo,” which had been very popular since 1929 when the Italian publishing house, Mondadori launched a new editorial series called the Yellow Books (I Libri Gialli).
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Casaregola, Vincent. "Who “Screens” Security?" In Biometrics. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0983-7.ch058.

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Films represent our awareness of surveillance and often trigger a deep emotional response from audiences, and for whole genres of film—particularly the political thriller and science fiction/speculative dystopia, along with horror films and some forms of the mystery or crime film—have been built around an individual or group of individuals who are being kept under some form of surveillance, either by the authorities of the state and by other individuals or groups who may have criminal and/or even psychotic motives. For filmmakers and their intended audiences, the surveillance narrative doubles back onto to very art form itself, composed as it is of the camera's surveillance of the action, along with the viewers' attentive watching of the film. While such audience attention had also been fundamental to drama for thousands of years, it has only been more recently that audiences began observing the fourth wall conventions of silence and darkness that make their watching of a performance a kind of surveillance.
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Trotter, David. "Women Spies." In The Literature of Connection. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850472.003.0008.

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If ever anyone had an incentive to establish a channel of communication by rigorously excluding third parties, it is surely the spy with hard-earned intelligence to transmit from behind enemy lines. This chapter examines how the thriller as a genre adapted to the increasing range and sophistication of telecommunications technologies. Examples discussed include John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), and the film Hitchcock made of it, The 39 Steps (1935); Sax Rohmer’s The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu (1913); and Jose Luis Borges’s ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’ (1941). But the main focus is on espionage as an extension of the ‘feminization of channelling’ (Jill Galvan) which had long seen women act as go-betweens under a variety of circumstances. Examples discussed include Marthe Cnockaert McKenna’s neglected memoir, I Was a Spy! (1932), and British spy films from Victor Saville’s Dark Journey (1937) to Charles Crichton’s Against the Wind (1948).
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Stojanović, Aleksandra. "AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD-VIEW: IAN MCEWAN’S NUTSHELL." In JEZIK, KNJIŽEVNOST, ALTERNATIVE/LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, ALTERNATIVES - Književna istraživanja. Filozofski fakultet u Nišu, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/jkal.2022.22.

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The goal of this paper is to explore the alternative modes of representing Shakespeare’s Hamlet in McEwan’s novel Nutshell and to determine the purpose of including Shakespearean references in the latter. We shall explore Harold Bloom’s views on the anxiety of influence as opposed to Julia Kristeva’s notion of intertextuality and Linda Hutcheon’s theory of adaptation, in which intertextuality is used to present previous literary works solely as material for constructing a new postmodern literary framework. By analyzing intertextual relationships, this paper shows that Nutshell is a postmodern adaptation of Hamlet. The very form of narration chosen by McEwan, namely that of an unborn fetus, raises the question of the reliability of the narrator. The main source of unreliability, apart from the age and limited viewpoint of the narrator, is the wide spectrum of genres displayed in the novel, varying from a psychological thriller, to a murder mystery to a fantasy novel. The novel may thus be seen as a postmodern alternative in two manners: as a rewriting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with the aim of presenting contemporary readers with an alternative to a well-known story and as a utilization of an alternative narrative technique that culminates in a questionably reliable narrator.
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"Post-Imperial Orientalism and Portuguese Claims to Late Capitalist Whiteness in José Rodrigues dos Santos’s Mystery Thrillers." In Empire Found. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2x1nqbd.6.

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