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Journal articles on the topic "Psychological Thriller"
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Kottke, Dagmara. "“And (Don’t) Stay on the Path…” – Transformation of the Fairy Tale into the Psychological Thriller in the Game The Path." Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio FF – Philologiae 36, no. 2 (2019): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/ff.2018.36.2.147-159.
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<p>Celem artykułu jest próba analizy procesu transformacji baśni w thriller psychologiczny w grze komputerowej The Path. Punkt wyjścia do rozważań stanowi teoria strukturalna Vladimira Proppa, który poddał badaniom tradycyjne baśni, wyodrębniając ich elementy wspólne, takie jak funkcje i role postaci. Rosyjski strukturalista w swojej teorii jako kluczowe elementy opowieści uwypukla bohaterów i ich działania, istotne nie tylko z punktu widzenia teoretyków literatury, ale również badaczy podejmujących refleksję nad grami komputerowymi. Studium wykazuje, że funkcje i role bohaterów tradycyjnych baśni wyróżnione przez Proppa zostają w The Path zdeformowane: gra „schodzi” z wyznaczonej przez strukturę baśni ścieżki, tworząc lukę w gatunkowej przestrzeni, która zostaje wypełniona elementami właściwymi dla thrillera psychologicznego. Odwrócenie i deformacja funkcji oraz roli postaci baśniowych skutkuje przeobrażeniem opowiedzianej w grze historii w thriller. Owo przeobrażenie wydaje się niezwykle płynne dlatego, że baśń i thriller psychologiczny nie są całkowicie odmiennymi, wykluczającymi się gatunkami; przeciwnie – uzupełniają się wzajemnie. Drugi pokazuje i dopowiada to, co pierwszy przemilcza lub zataja.</p>
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Rohaeni, Rohaeni, Fatma Hetami, and Bambang Purwanto. "Anxiety and Defense Mechanism as A Means of Constructing Psychological Thriller in Hawkins’ “The Girl on The Train”." Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies 8, no. 1 (2019): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v8i1.27917.
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The topic of this study is Anxiety and Defense Mechanism as A Means of Constructing Psychological Thriller in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. The objectives of this study are to describe how anxiety and defense mechanism are described in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and to explain how anxiety and defense mechanism construct psychological thriller as represented in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. The object of the study is a novel entitled The Girl on the Train written by Paula Hawkins. This study is descriptive qualitative study by applying Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The data of the study were collected by reading, identifying, interpreting, and inventorying citations from the novel. Further, the data were analyzed based on Freudian psychoanalytic theory by describing anxiety and defense mechanism described in the novel. The data were also analysed by explaining how anxiety and defense mechanism construct psychological thriller. The results show there are three kinds of anxiety and six kinds of defense mechanism. Moreover, the results prove that those anxieties and defense mechanisms become a means of constructing psychological thriller since they make the characters suffer from psychological problem and become unreliable narrator, create plot twist, and make the novel become thrilling.
 
 Keywords: Psychological thriller; Freudian psychoanalysis; Anxiety; Defense Mechanism.
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Manoranjani, K. K., and J. Sripadmadevi. "Unmasking the Insecure Attachments in Gone Girl and The Silent Patient." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 11, S2-March (2024): 37–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v11is2-march.7505.
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The psychological thriller is a subgenre of thriller, which often includes crime, mental illness and unreliable narrators. It reflects the dark side and breaks the stereotypes in the society. In literature it aims to reflect the darker side of humans and their minds through the characters. It reflects the tension and complexities of relationships in the family. It explores the deepest thoughts and motivations of the characters. This is well expressed by Gillian Flynn and Alex Michaelides in their novels Gone Girl and The Silent Patient respectively. In Gone Girl, Amy’s mysterious disappearance turns her husband Nick, into a suspect, but the truth is shocking for manipulation and hidden darkness. In The Silent Patient, Alicia, a renowned artist murders her husband in silence and becomes obsessed with unlocking the secrets buried in her past and mind. The present article explores on how characters form emotional bonds and attachments with others by magnifying with the psychological lens called Attachment theory.
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Megela, Ivan, and Kateryna Mehela. "Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer (Based on the Novel “Silence” by Thomas Raab)." Postmodern Openings 13, no. 4 (2022): 335–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/po/13.4/520.
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The research deals with the issue of genre hybridization in the novel “Silence – Chronicle of a Killer” written by a contemporary Austrian writer Thomas Raab. An examination of the novel's composition and structure, as a text in motion, has been accomplished in the article. The novel “Silence” is an excellent illustration of how the genre of adventure has been adapted to include elements of science fiction. This novel is a love tale, a rural life saga, a formation narrative, and a psychological thriller all in one. As a fictionalized account of the life of a serial murderer with hypersensitive hearing who became a legend for his mental torment and suffering, it serves both as a biography and a thriller. Novelist Raab uses elements from classic horror novels like Frankenstein, German romantics, in particular, G. Kleist, the tale of Casper Hauser, and detective novels like Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Promise" to tell the story of Casper Hauser's disappearance in his book. A new aesthetic experience may be formed at various degrees of identification ranging from naive perception to higher levels of literary reception. Concentration is required for poetic and philosophical substance. Michel Focalut's nomadism, marginality, and authoritarian power rhetoric have been discussed in this article. The novel's ultimate content has been disclosed as the aphesis torment, emotional sublimation, as the birth of an artwork and, at the same time, death of the author, who exposes discourses, accountable for creating texts that are allocated to him.
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Lorentia, Helena. "Cheated: The Psychoanalysis on a Transgender Person." K@ta Kita 5, no. 2 (2018): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/katakita.5.2.38-44.
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This creative works tells a story about a husband who hides his true identity from his wife. He is actually a transgender person who has a desire to be a woman, but he represses his desire and tries to live as a man. I choose the transgender topic because there are a lot of transgender people around us who repress their true sexuality because of the society norms and beliefs. Therefore, my story wants to explore more on this topic with the help of the theory of defense mechanism by Freud to explain why and how the husband represses his sexuality, and to explain the effects caused by the repression. The story is presented through the drama and psychological thriller genre to suit the style of the creative work which focuses on the psychological state of the main characters and the complexity within them,
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Bhattacharya, Saradindu. "Gender, Genre, and the Idea of the Nation." Pedagogy 21, no. 3 (2021): 549–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-9131947.
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Abstract This article examines the construction of and contestation over the idea of the nation through contemporary popular cinema in India. Building on his experience of discussing the Bollywood spy thriller Raazi (2018) in an English class, the author proposes that “reading” the film in terms of gender and genre can not only help students apply modes of textual analysis to narratives in other media but also alert them to the location of such narratives within larger discursive frameworks of defining national identities. Raazi presents a critical and ideological counterpoint to the generic conventions of the spy thriller within the increasingly polarized sociopolitical context of the Indian subcontinent. The film presents an unlikely female protagonist as both the physical agent and the psychological subject of the violence integral to the “action” of an espionage film. It also interrogates the oppositional relation between the patriotic “self” and the foreign “other” that lies at the basis of the militaristic conception of the nation and ultimately reveals the shared human vulnerability of both to the traumatic effects of pursuing the idea(l) of nationalism at the expense of individual moral integrity. Thus a close reading of the film's narrative structure and conventions, as well as a critical engagement with the historical context of its production and reception, can be pedagogically fruitful ways of understanding and critiquing the processes through which a nation is collectively imagined into being.
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Ue, Tom. "Solving crimes, telling stories: An interview with Tom Ryan." Book 2.0 12, no. 2 (2022): 207–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00077_7.
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Like the interviewer, Tom Ryan is based in Nova Scotia, in Canada’s Maritimes. Ryan is the author of more than a half-dozen books, including some critically acclaimed works for young readers: Keep This to Yourself (), for example, earned the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for YA Crime Book and the 2020 ITW Award for Best YA Thriller; more recently I Hope You’re Listening () was awarded the 2021 Lambda Literary Award. In what follows, Ryan and I dwell on these two novels to explore what attracts him to the YA genre, his writing process, central themes in his oeuvre and how he imbues his characters with psychological complexity. This interview contributes to scholarship by expanding critical attention on Nova Scotian literature and by attending to Ryan’s remarkably successful works of genre fiction.
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Glant, Tibor. "1956 at Ten and Beethoven’s Tenth." Acta Neerlandica, no. 15 (July 10, 2020): 185–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.36392/actaneerl/2019/15/9.
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This article looks at Edward Alexander, an American diplomat who served in Hungary between 1965 and 1969, and his various writings. An Armenian-American man of letters, Alexander served in psychological warfare in World War II, then joined cold war radios and later the Foreign Service. Our focus is on the years 1965-67, when he served as Press and Cultural Affairs Officer at the Budapest Legation. Available sources include his official diplomatic reports, his rather large Hungarian state security file, a lifetime interview conducted under the aegis of the State Department in the late 1980s, a book on Armenian history, and a semi-autobiographical intelligence thriller he penned in 2000. These sources allow for a complex evaluation of his performance in Hungary and of his writing skills on account of his attempt to fictionalize his own exploits.
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Marsena, Jennifer Gracia, and Sonny Angjaya. "EXPOSING SOCIAL INEQUALITY FROM THE MENTALLY ILL REPRESENTATION IN TODD PHILLIPS’ JOKER." Lire Journal (Journal of Linguistics and Literature) 6, no. 1 (2022): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.33019/lire.v6i1.135.
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Social inequality has continuously become a problem especially towards marginalized group. Such topic is presented in Todd Phillips latest psychological thriller, Joker (2019). Whilst other researches focus on the psychological aspect of the film, this study takes on the perspective of the sociological/socio-political aspect in the film which is social inequality. In analyzing the social inequality aspect of the film, this study uses theory of structural discrimination by Link, et al. which theorizes that laws, policies, or other practices. are discriminating a marginalized group. To analyze the film itself, the writers analyzed the mise-en- scène and cinematography aspects of the film. The purpose of this study is to find if government’s policies have any involvement of impact to the life of a mentally ill person. Method used for this analysis is qualitative data research. In analyzing the film, it is found that Fleck’s life as a mentally ill and poor person is deliberately sabotaged by the discriminative policies and laws applied in Gotham city. In conclusion, this film represents Joker as more than just a Batman’s main film but rather used as a vehicle to criticize the state of social inequality in the world.
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Jancovich, Mark. "‘Frighteningly real’: Realism, social criticism and the psychological killer in the critical reception of the late 1940s horror-thriller." European Journal of American Culture 31, no. 1 (2012): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac.31.1.25_1.
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