his class will look at the history and themes of great movie thrillers. We will start early (1930) and go late (2017), and look at key elements of form and content in our films: from the heist film, to the political thriller, the police procedural, Hitchcock, the drama of the final girl, and race and the thriller. Throughout, our films raise important political and existential questions. Suspense in great movies is always “about” something. We’ll look a little at genre theory, and a lot at film form: why does Lang or Hitchcock or Jordan Peele do this with the camera, with the lighting, with that graphic match. Another que