According to Martin Rubin, a thriller is a genre which is ‘set of conventions and shared characteristics that have historically evolved into a distinct, widely recognized type of composition within an n art form’. He writes that the label thriller is ‘highly problematic’, and it might seem ‘impossibly broad and vague’. The thriller can be conceptualized as a “meta genre” that brings together a number of other genres under its umbrella, and as a band in the spectrum that colours each of those various genres. For example; sky thriller, detective thriller, horror thriller. Rubin claims that the thriller is a quantitative as well as a qualitative concept, which consists of not only the occurrence of particular qualities but also the extent to which they are presented. They contain a ‘sense of departure from the routine world into a realm that is more marvelous and exciting’. The thriller acts to evoke feelings such as suspense, fright, mystery, exhilaration, excitement, speed, movement (emphasizes visceral, gut-level feelings). The thriller often proposes double emotions, feelings and sensations such as humor and suspense, fear and excitement, pleasure and pain.
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