Tag: Suspense

Free Download The Lantern’s Dance: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1QQ9Z9 | 2024 | 10 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Laurie R. King
Narrator: Amy Scanlon

Free Download Bridge: A Novel of Suspense by Lauren Beukes
English | August 8, 2023 | ISBN: 0316267880 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 1.4 MB
A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in this dazzling new thriller from the author of The Shining Girls that is "sheer thrilling madness with a big, beating heart that reminds us we’re all connected" (Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author).

Free Download The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction [TTC Audio]
English | November 11, 2016 | ASIN: B01N04W64A | M4B@96 kbps | 18h 56m | 781 MB
Lecturer: David Schmid
Great mystery and suspense writers have created some of the most unforgettable stories in all of literature. Even those who don’t consider themselves fans of this intriguing genre are familiar with names such as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade, Hannibal Lecter, and Robert Langdon, and understand the deep and lasting impact this writing has had on literature as a whole. An utterly captivating and compelling genre, mystery and suspense has leapt off the pages of the old dime store paperbacks, magazines, and comic books onto big screens, small screens, radio serials, podcasts, websites, and more. You’ll find elements, characters, and references permeating popular culture and news reports worldwide, and bleeding into other literary genres such as romance, political thrillers, sports stories, and even biographies. Nearly 200 years old, the genre of mystery and suspense literature is only growing more popular.
How did it become so prevalent? Why is mystery and suspense a go-to genre for so many around the world? What makes the dark and sometimes grisly themes appealing? In 24 lectures of The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction, Professor David Schmid of the University at Buffalo examines these questions, as he guides you through an examination of the many different varieties of the genre, including classic whodunits, hard-boiled crime fiction, historical mysteries, courtroom dramas, true crime narratives, espionage fiction, and many more.

Free Download Hitchcock: Suspense, Humour and Tone (Distributed for the British Film Institute) By Susan Smith
2001 | 162 Pages | ISBN: 0851707807 | PDF | 37 MB
Explores the director’s distinctive style and use of suspense, humor, and tone in such films as "Sabotage," "Notorious," "Psycho," "Shadow of a Doubt," and "The Birds."

Free Download Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema By Alanna Michael Thain
2017 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0816692955 | PDF | 13 MB
Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory. According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Through the "time machine" of suspense, film form, gender, genre, and spectatorship are revealed in innovative and different ways. These films not only engage us directly in ethical concerns, but also provide a key for understanding corporeal power in the digital era.Offering a new framework for understanding cinematic suspense, Bodies in Suspense argues that the "body in time" enables us to experience the temporal dimension of the body directly. This is the first book to link two contemporary frames of analysis: questions of cinematic temporality and contemporary affect theory. Thain conducts close readings of influential suspense films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Christian Marclay, Rian Johnson, and Lou Ye, and sets forth a compelling new theory of cinema, reading for the productivity of the "crime of time" that stages the duplicity of cinematic bodies. Through these films that foreground doubled characters and looping, Thain explores Gilles Deleuze’s claim that "the direct time-image is the phantom which has always haunted cinema."A vital new addition to film theory, corporeality and affect theory, feminist theory, and the philosophy of time-and one of the first books to explore David Lynch’s Hollywood trilogy-Bodies in Suspense asks us to pay attention, above all, to the ways in which the condition of spectatorship creates a doubling sensation with important philosophical repercussions.