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Suspense in motion pictures, television, etc.

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us: Suspense in motion pictures, television, etc.


  • Here are entered works on the use of suspense in motion pictures, television programs, and video recordings. Works about films or television programs that feature a build up of suspense, tension, uncertainty, menace, and anxiety as primary elements and in which the audience is kept on tenterhooks are entered under the appropriate specific heading, e.g. [Thrillers (Motion pictures); Thrillers (Television programs)] subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical, and/or form subdivisions.

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    • us: Suspense in motion pictures

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Suspense in motion pictures

  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: 95039720: Suspense, c1996.
    • found: Complete film dict., 1987: Suspense (a state of uncertainty and delay that builds up anxiety as one awaits the outcome of a situation ... all plots must have a certain degree of suspense ... [especially] horror films, thrillers)
    • notfound: Handbk. of Amer. film genres, 1988;Films by genre, 1993

  • LC Classification

    • PN1995.9.S87

  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on the use of suspense in motion pictures, television programs, and video recordings. Works about films or television programs that feature a build up of suspense, tension, uncertainty, menace, and anxiety as primary elements and in which the audience is kept on tenterhooks are entered under the appropriate specific heading, e.g. [Thrillers (Motion pictures); Thrillers (Television programs)] subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical, and/or form subdivisions.

  • Example Notes

    • Notes under [Thrillers (Motion pictures); Thrillers (Television programs)]

  • Change Notes

    • 2004-03-17: new
    • 2008-09-09: revised

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