This Sui Dynasty process of infrequently collecting tujing or " map guides " continued, but it would be enhanced by the matured literary genre of fangzhi or " treatise on a place " of the Song Dynasty.

As the genre matured, fantasy elements were introduced.

As the genre matured, elements of fantasy and magic tended to accrue to the tales.

The Book of Daniel offers a fully matured and classic example of this genre of literature.

In recent years, heroic fantasy has matured somewhat out of its staid image as sub-par ' fat fantasy ', becoming a genre of its own, the best examples of which have received much praise.

NARAS President Mike Green said in Billboard that the music genre has " matured into several kinds of music, with several kinds of artists doing it ".

Music historian Robert Stephens attributes the birth of soul music to " What'd I Say " when gospel and blues were successfully joined ; the new genre of music was matured by later musicians such as James Brown and Aretha Franklin.

As the genre matured, it began to borrow elements from the French roman and the role of love became increasingly important.

Typically shown in school classrooms in the USA from the 1950s through the 1970s, the films covered topics including courtesy, responsibility, sexuality, drug use, and driver safety ; the genre also includes films for adults, covering topics such as marriage and how to balance budgets.

This genre was popular in the 1950s and was often associated with towering budgets and such stars as Charlton Heston.

In addition to increasing the audience size, many sci-fi films of the time were created with minuscule budgets ; the phrase " B-movie " came to signify a formulaic genre film made with low production costs ( usually for less than $ 400, 000 ).

However, in the second half of the decade, the steady success of the genre led to some studios attempting serious films with large budgets, including the coldly realistic depiction of a post-nuclear war world, On the Beach, and Forbidden Planet, a sci-fi re-imagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Titles like Sonny Miller's, " The Search " for Rip Curl redefined the genre with exotic locales, big budgets and name surfers, such as Tom Curren.

Most also have divisions that focus on genre movies, B movies either literally by virtue of their low budgets, or spiritually — for instance, Sony's Screen Gems and Buena Vista's Hollywood Pictures brand.

Since they showed pictorial sequences of men and corpses covered with shrouds, those paintings are sometimes regarded as cultural precursors of the new genre.

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance.

" This genre may sometimes overlap with the science fiction and action / adventure genre.

His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called " The Father of Science Fiction ".

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

Basses have a long history in opera, having been used in opera seria in supporting roles, and sometimes for comic relief ( as well as providing a contrast to the preponderance of high voices in this genre ).

Fans in the West have adopted a wide range of Japanese anime and manga terminology, however the strong stylistic and thematic similarities between a sector of shōjo works has led to regarding them as a genre or style, sometimes with an attempt to assign it by degrees.

A hidden object game ( sometimes called hidden picture ) is a genre of puzzle video game in which the player must find items from a list that are hidden within a picture.

War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects.

The genre is closely linked with the thriller and adventure film genres, and it may sometimes have elements of spy fiction and espionage.

* Disaster Film-Having elements of thriller and sometimes science fiction films, the main conflict of this genre is some sort of natural or artificial disaster, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, etc., or nuclear disasters that are shown with heavy action scenes, special effects, over the top destruction and, in modern day, use of CGI.

The term is sometimes used in a derogatory manner by writers and readers of the fantasy genre.

* Class S ( genre ), sometimes abbreviated as Esu.

The use of yaoi to denote those works with explicit scenes sometimes clashes with use of the word to describe the genre as a whole.

In recent years, the terms yaoi and shōnen-ai have sometimes been used by western fans to differentiate between the contents of the genre.

The terms yaoi and shōnen-ai are sometimes used by western fans to differentiate between the contents of the genre.

Latin American music ( sometimes abbreviated as Latin music ) is a music genre encompassing rhythms and styles originated or related to Latin America, as well as derived music genres from the United States and Europe.

The Western genre sometimes portrays the conquest of the wilderness and the subordination of nature in the name of civilization or the confiscation of the territorial rights of the original inhabitants of the frontier.

Often contrasted with auteur directors such as Stanley Kubrick, who tended to bring a distinctive directorial " look " to a particular genre, Wise is famously viewed to have allowed his ( sometimes studio assigned ) story to dictate style.

While the 1990s had many different sounds and styles emerging, the genre primarily branched into two directions ; new school metallic hardcore ( sometimes referred to as metalcore ), which incorporated aspects of thrash metal and death metal for a heavier and more technical sound, and old school, reminiscent of classic styles of hardcore punk like youth crew.

In the north, now very largely Protestant, religious art largely disappeared, and Dutch Golden Age painting concentrated on a wide range of secular subjects, such as genre painting, landscape art and still-lives, with results that might sometimes have surprised the Protestant ministers who initiated the movement.

Games that are today sometimes perceived as ancestors of the real-time strategy genre were never marketed or designed as such at the original date of publication.

Each increased the number of weekly episodes transmitted by at least one, further defining soap opera as the leading genre in British television.

Street Fighter's successful revival has sparked a renaissance for the genre, introducing new players to the genre and with the increased audience allowing other fighting game franchises to achieve successful revivals of their own.

Though progressive metal was, and has remained, primarily an album-oriented genre, this mainstream exposure increased the genre's profile, and opened doors for other bands.

Blur won the ' race ' for the top of the charts, and the resulting fallout from the publicity led to the paper enjoying increased sales during the 1990s as Britpop became the dominant musical genre.

The genre boomed in the 1980s, with the addition of many category romance lines and an increased number of single-title romances.

Since 2007 and her appearance in Halloween, Danielle Harris has increased her genre work, being subsequently called " horror's reigning scream queen " by the NY Daily News.

Due to hip hop's increased moulding with pop music, some, such as rapper Nas have declared the death of the genre.

The success of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises widened the console video game market and its demographics, and the popularity of the genre drove increased sales of consoles.

On that album the band showcased screaming vocals, tremolo guitar riffs and drum passages with increased speed typical for the black metal genre.

Though the Eurobeat genre originally sounded almost identical to Italo disco, today's modern Eurobeat features greatly increased BPM and faster synth-lines and vocals, though many recent releases have a slower BPM.

In 1961 Rey played in a European Western, The Savage Guns, and as the popularity of that genre increased during that decade appeared in some other movies, including the political The Price of Power ( 1969 ), the bizarre cult classic Companeros ", and two sequels of The Magnificent Seven, namely Return of the Seven ( 1966 ) and Guns of the Magnificent Seven ( 1969 ).

Children's literature in Singapore has gained momentum in recent years due to increased interest in the genre generated by the First Time Writers and Illustrators Initiative which discovered acclaimed writers such as * Adeline Foo The Diary of Amos Lee, * Jin Pyn The Elephant and the Tree, and * Emily Lim Prince Bear and Pauper Bear.

His enthusiasm, along with the increased popularity of the metal genre, earned him an invitation to " hang out " at WDHA.

With the reggaeton genre becoming a worldwide phenomenon, Zion and Lennox's popularity increased.

The modern fantasy genre first took root during the 18th century with the increased popularity of fictional travelers ' tales, influencing and being influenced by other early forms of speculative fiction along the way, finally unfurling in the 19th century from a literary tapestry of fantastic stories and gaining recognition as a distinct genre ( mainly due to the nigh-ubiquitous recession of fantastic elements from " mainstream " fiction ) in the late 19th century.

Although Conquest of Space was a commercial failure that set back Pal's career, the other four each won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, which demonstrated the increased technical excellence and critical recognition of the genre.

Working in early Hollywood, his popularity increased after he switched from comedic roles to the increasingly popular western film genre.