Cape Fear (1962) Filminin Türsel Açidan Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

The concept of genre has had a significant place in cinema studies since the 1970s. Genre films are commercial feature films telling identical stories with similar characters. Definition and debate of genus and genres in cinema has tended to focus on mainstream, commercial films in general and Hollywood films in particular. In this study, it is aimed to make a generic evaluation of the movie Cape Fear directed by John Lee Thompson in 1962. The movie was selected with a teleological sample method because it inhibits the characteristics of some main genres and some sub-genres and makes the changes of some main species visible over time. The movie has the characteristics of psychological-thriller, psycho-thriller, film noir and neo-noir. The film was chosen in terms of both showing the change in the main genre, film noir, and blurring the boundaries of psycho-thriller and psychological thriller, which are two sub-genres of thriller. Movie selected as a sample, analyzed according to the generic criticism method. In this direction Cape Fear is evaluated from a generic perspective under the headings of “subject, narrative structure, characters, iconography and direction of photography.”