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On the Feeling Structure of Film Suspense

CHEN Yu   

  1. Humanities College, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 200235, China
  • Received:2013-11-19 Revised:2013-01-15 Online:2013-03-15 Published:2013-03-15

Abstract: Feeling structure is the most important part of "human interest", which is indispensable to the narrative analysis of film suspense. The nature of feeling structure in suspense narration varies from one movie type to another: "frightening" in "thrillers", "expected" in "life comedies", "horrible" in "horror films" , "exciting and surprising" in "spectacle movies", etc. However, if narrative conventions are fixed and stereotyped, they will in turn damage, even deconstruct, the feeling structure of film suspense.

Key words: film suspense, feeling structure, narrative value

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