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Psychological films
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Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Conspiracy films
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Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Conspiracy films (Genre/Form Term)
- Conspiracy thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Paranoid thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Political conspiracy films
- Political paranoid thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Broader heading: Political films
- Broader heading: Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Work cat.: All the President's men [VR], 2006.
Executive action [VR], ©2011.
López, D. Films by genre, ©1993 (Conspiracy Film (Conspiracy Thriller, Conspiration Film, Paranoid Thriller, Political Conspiracy Film, Political Paranoid Thriller, Poltical Thriller). The term conspiracy film covers films which deal with political or terrorist assassinations, government cover-ups and conspiracies in general; paranoid fear that unknown enemies may strike at any time, the endangered person not even aware of what motivates the attack, or without any means of defense against the invisible threat, is the main theme governing many conspiracy films. See also Political Thriller)
History of the American cinema, 1990- : v. 9, p. 197 (The "paranoid" conspiracy film. The sense that oppressive forces were at work against individual liberty, and that the law could not protect its citizens from them, was central to another subgenre of 1970s film noir. In both mood and theme, the conspiracy film was a type of paranoid political thriller that placed the blame for American society's corruption on plotters pursuing secret agendas to control national life.) p. 198 (The Parallax View, locus classicus of the conspiracy film in its account of an "assassination bureau" that controls the nation's politics through seemingly random political murders) p. 200 (films about conspiracy began to appear in 1973; the first was the theatrical feature Executive Action; All the President's Men (1976) has been called "the centerpiece of the conspiracy subgenre") p. 204 (By the end of the decade, the conspiracy subgenre was so well codified that it could be parodied)
Donovan, B.W. Conspiracy films, ©2011.
List of conspiracy-thriller films and television series, via Wikipedia, Dec. 18, 2014 (conspiracy thriller films; examples listed include: All the President's Men; Angels and Demons; The Assassination Bureau; Blow Out; Capricorn One; The China Syndrome; Coma; The Constant Gardener; The Conversation; The Da Vinci Code; Executive Action; The Fugitive; I Witness; The Insider; The Interpreter; The Long Kiss Goodnight; The Manchurian Candidate; Marathon Man; Network; The Parallax View; Seven Days in May; The Stepford Wives; The X-Files; Z)
