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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, television, and gaming that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Writer Vladimir Nabokov, in his lectures 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.

Thriller Genre Critics
Martin Ruben
Martin Ruben written a book where he took what each critic thought were the main cliches of an average thriller film and he combined them together.
ChestertonGK
Chesterton defended the thriller genre by claiming that it was a modern genre. He also believed that a typical thriller is set in an urban landscape, and it is where an everyday person is in a mundane life and something exciting is brought into this world.
Northrop Fryer
Northrop Fryer continues GK Chestertons work by also claiming how the hero is often an ordinary person, he also says how thrillers can be quite similar to romance fictions as the hero of romance is in a world where the ordinary laws of nature slightly alter. which leaves an empathetic effect on the audience
John Cawelti
John Cawelti combines Chestersons and Fryers theoriesbut he believed that there is a transformation from the city to an enchanted forest and mystery. This is achieved by introducing the exotic into the every day world, E.g. E.T, jumanji
Matthews
Matthews work relates to mazes and labrynths in fiction and he believed that to design a thriller narrative, you need to add twists and turns so that the audience doesnt solve the problem too easily but it is designed so that the audeince could deduce it.
Benitzer
Benitzer tought that matthews was describing something called 'partial vision' he also believed that what the doesnt know should be part of the thriller genre.
Larz ole Sourberg
Soulberg wrote that thrillers will contain a method of something called 'concealment' which adds to the effect. He believed that something should be delibrately hidden from the audience or delaying the outcome of something to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
Noel Carroll
Noel carroll felt that their should be a 'battle againt the odds' for the characters, he thought that if he gave the audience a question, such as, 'will the hero survive?' this helps add mystery suspense and action to the film as this may not be morally right for the hero to survive.