Abstract:

In all types of films, suspense is set universally, which is both a means of film narratives and related closely to the psychology of seeing a movie, performing a narrative function of mobilizing and sustaining audience' s interest for seeing the film. The understanding of film suspense concerns about other suspense issues of fictional narratives. This essay holds that suspense, as a narrative activity of uncertain emotional responses such as expectation (positive emotion) and terror (negative emotion), is preset in the fictional, narrative text by way of hiding or stressing the specific information (often connected with the risk of life and death, or with the desire to look forward to). While suspense is characteristic of crossmedia, the film, by virtue of its specific media and expression, possesses a more complex mechanism of suspense.

Key words: suspense, film suspense, film media