Introduction: Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller -- 1. Situating the Erotic Thriller as a Women's Genre -- 2. How to be a Good Female Heterosexual: The Erotic Thriller's Instructional Discourses -- 3. The Subject of Passion, the Object of Murder: Soft-core's Refashioning of the Gothic and Film Noir Genres -- 4. Viewing the Problem: Therapeutic Discourses and Soft-core's "Talking Cure" -- 5. Surveillance, Subjectivity, and Soft-core: "You Like to Watch, Don't You?" -- Conclusion: Whose Porn is it?: The Case of Women: Stories of Passion.