• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.145-153
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• 2019

As a category of film types, suspense thriller is constantly introducing a new element in the endless historical development and owns new vitality. The long-standing essence is that it doesn't vulgarly cater to the public, but stimulates more creativity. In this thesis, starting from theoretical foundation of creation in American contemporary suspense thriller, the author analyzes playwriting characteristics of suspense thriller and analyzes the exquisite description of characters' mental world and external presentation in detail from multiple structure modes to multiple perspectives. Also, the author comprehensively elaborates playwriting characteristic features of American contemporary suspense thriller by combining with playwriting theme, structure and viewpoint and takes the classic work of American suspense thriller by David Fincher as an example to analyze the unique value of thriller playwriting.