With Cult Thriller of journalist Catherine Saturday, La Serra editions, lovers of the genre in cinema will find their father for their teeth in bookstores (and online stores).
This is because the thriller more than others interprets society, revealing cracks and unrest. It is not only born to hold the viewer with the suspended breath: it often intercepts the climate of its own time, other times it precedes it, as demonstrated by the birds of Alfred Hitchcock (1963), which already allowed to glimpse anxieties related to the environmental emergency.
Cult Thriller: il saggio
When it reaches its heights, the thriller manages to transform real events and figures of the black chronicle into powerful symbols, capable of sedimenting into the collective imagination. It is the case of the serial killer “ante litteram” of M – The Dusseldorf Monster (1931) of Fritz Lang, or of the dark paths that bind Psyco (1960), The silence of the innocent (1991) and Do not open that door (1974) to the disturbing events of the murderous Ed Gein.
In this essay the author does not embrace the entire production thriller, impossible in front of the vastness of the genre, but traces a reasoned map: he tells the films that have engraved deeper, those that have redefinited languages, contaminated other genres, opened new directions. Works that, above all, have been able to grasp the drifts of society and amplify its fears.
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