Retrospective usage Social thriller

social thriller actor sidney poitier (left) @ 1963 march on washington, alongside harry belafonte , charlton heston

social thriller (often appearing in quotes) being used 1970s retrospectively describe political neo-noir cinema. example comes cinema writer georges sadoul s characterization of el wahsh ( monster ), egyptian crime film entered 1954 cannes film festival. sadoul sums film social thriller based on authentic police case police pursuit of drug-addicted gangster. sadoul goes on describe film s documentary style , backdrop of life in egyptian countryside. other uses of term can found in depictions of french new wave films, such nada gang, claude chabrol s 1974 film inspired may 1968 events in france. in book, french culture since 1945, malcolm , martin cook wrote chabrol s career has been exclusively devoted might called social thriller —films using suspense format akin of hitchcock comment on deviousness , duplicity of french society.

many other film critics bandied term in reviews prior 2010s seldom in way gave social thriller own status codified genre in cinema. prior 2017, writers used term once, in single review, , characterize individual film. in biography on william wyler, axel madsen calls 1937 humphrey bogart picture dead end social thriller. tla video reviewer david bleiler described 1950 sidney poitier film no way out exceptionally made, tense drama succeeds both medical soap opera , social thriller. douglas brode called spencer tracy alienated anti-hero of social thriller 1955 performance in bad day @ black rock. poitier film, 1967 s in heat of night, got tagged social thriller leonard maltin. both tracy , poitier appeared in 1967 s guess s coming dinner, film later identified key non-thriller example of social thriller genre.

for films produced outside u.s., more 1 reviewer has named 1961 british film victim social thriller, having been first english language film on record use word homosexual , made in united kingdom when homosexuality still persecuted crime. ismal xavier called 1962 brazilian train robbery film o assalto ao trem pagador social thriller. taiwanese director bai jingrui s 1982 film offend law of god has been called exploitation social thriller , 1996 spanish film taxi, rise of rascist right wing, has been given label. in historical dictionary of russian , soviet cinema, author peter rollberg goes bit further one-mention references of peers. in describing work of russo-belarusian director aleksandr faintsimmer, rollberg writes, fainsimmer devoted himself traditionally underrepresented genre of social thriller blockbusters such no right fail (1974) , cafeteria on piatnikskaia street (1978). rollberg names leonid filatov s 1982 film rooks , vadim derbenev s 1985 hit snake catcher landmarks of genre in soviet union.