Suspense film

Japanese: suspense film(英語表記)suspensefilm
Suspense film

…A general term for films that are made with the intention of thrilling, suspenseful, or shocking. Before it was established as a genre, it was also called suspense film or shocker. During and after World War II in the 1940s, thriller novels became popular, which depicted the actions and circumstances of characters in a ruthless style called "hard-boiled" to build anxiety and tension, rather than focusing on the detective interest in finding the culprit or solving the case. Reflecting this, Raymond Chandler's novel "The Big Bad Pig" (1946), which is said to be one of the prototypes of the "detective film," was created, and the word "thriller" is said to have come to be used in films as well.

*Some of the terms that refer to "suspense film" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…スリル,サスペンス,ショックを意図してつくられる映画の総称で,一つのジャンルとして定着するまでは,〈サスペンス・フィルムsuspense film〉〈ショッカーshocker〉などともよばれた。第2次世界大戦中から戦後にかけての1940年代に,犯人捜索や事件解決をめぐる推理的興味よりも人物の行動や環境を〈ハードボイルドhard‐boiled〉とよばれる非情なスタイルで描写して不安や緊張をもり上げるスリラー小説が流行したが,それを反映して〈探偵映画detective film〉の原型の一つといわれるレーモンド・チャンドラー原作の《三つ数えろ》(1946)がつくられ,〈スリラーthriller〉ということばが映画にもつかわれるようになったといわれる。…

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