Classical elements have been frequently used in pop culture in genres such as fantasy, literature, film, humor, television, video games, comic books, toys and even music.

Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

Despite their name, comic books are not necessarily humorous in tone ; modern comic books tell stories in a variety of genres.

Notably, the existing fragments of Aristotle's Poetics describe three genres of poetry — the epic, the comic, and the tragic — and develop rules to distinguish the highest-quality poetry in each genre, based on the underlying purposes of the genre.

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

Dime novels are, at least in spirit, the antecedent of today ’ s mass market paperbacks, comic books, and even television shows and movies based on the dime novel genres.

His stand-up routines often feature music from genres such as jazz, rock ( most notably prog rock from the early seventies ), drum ' n ' bass, rave, classical, and even theme songs, usually for comic value.

Webcomics range from traditional comic strips and graphic novels to avante garde comics, and cover many genres, styles and subjects.

Be it in the tragic, comic or other genres, art and literature offer means to alleviate ( and perhaps also exacerbate ) suffering, as argued for instance in Harold Schweizer's Suffering and the remedy of art.

His work spans several genres including non-fiction, science fiction, horror, and comic books.

American comic books, which had been big business and flourished in diverse genres in the 1940s and 1950s, had reached a low ebb in the 1970s.

Bergman loved reading books by authors Anne Rice, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Amy Tan, Carrie Fisher, Leonard Maltin and Douglas Adams, and in genres such as mystery, science fiction, horror, comedy, biography, and comic books.

Secular painting became far more common from the Renaissance, and developed its own traditions and conventions of iconography, in history painting, which includes mythologies, portraits, genre scenes, and even landscapes, not to mention modern media and genres like photography, cinema, political cartoons, comic books and anime.

Because black musicals were originated from several genres of stage entertainment – the ballad opera, the music extravaganza, the comic opera, the minstrel show, and the variety show – there is a plausible argument that previous nineteenth century black companies created such theatrical plays, and A Trip to Coontown was not the first black musical performed.

According to the Russian author and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin ( 1895 – 1975 ), there are three forms of carnivalesque art — the ritualized spectacle, the comic composition and various genres of billingsgate ( foul language )— all three of which are interwoven in Ryden's work.

Many countries developed their own genres of comic opera, incorporating the Italian and French models along with their own musical traditions.

She wrote more than fifty stage pieces in an array of genres: melodramas, pantomimes, farces, comic operettas, historical dramas, and adaptations, as well as translations.

Spanning genres like epics to Crime thrillers ; from romantic escapades to comic flicks and action flicks, Ganesan has spanned it all.

David Mazzucchelli is an American comic book writer / artist, known for his work on seminal superhero comic book storylines Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One, as well as for graphic novels in other genres, such as Asterios Polyp and City of Glass: The Graphic Novel.

In addition to superheroes, AC has attempted to preserve other comic book genres inspired by the series of the past, such as Westerns and jungle adventure.

It was a surprising book for comic lovers, covering a range of different genres, which led to its publication by Editorial Soleil in France, Germany and Comic NBM in the U. S .. On the basis of this compilation held his first exhibition of original artworks.

The imprint drew inspirations from comic book superheroes, as well pulp fiction, various cult genres and modern-day pop culture.

As such, performers in these other genres tend to come from a variety of routes, including informal learning by using bass method books or DVDs, taking private lessons and coaching, and learning from records and CDs.

Having lost their academic home in May 2003, they increasingly cross genres and print write-ups of all books and media received, as well as of events that feature creative works that imaginatively challenge gender such as intentional communities, performance events, and film festivals.

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; born October 21, 1929 ) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction.

According to the 2004 Book Summary, Baen Books was the ninth most active publisher in terms of most books published in the genres indicated, and the fifth most active publisher of the dedicated SF imprints, publishing a total of 67 titles ( of which 40 were original titles ).

They were arranged in nine ' books ', exemplifying the following genres ( Bacchylides in fact composed in a greater variety of genres than any of the other lyric poets who comprise the canonic nine, with the exception of Pindar, who composed in ten ):

Until 1980's very few books in these genres were written, and even fewer were published, although earlier books, such as by Gogol, were not banned.

Nichol also worked in a wide variety of other genres, including musical theatre, children's books, collage / assemblage, pamphlets, spoken word, computer texts, fiction, and television.

She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age ; love and marriage ; peace, solitude and contentment, as well as the role of women in the 20th century.

* c. 800: Library catalogues are introduced in the House of Wisdom and other medieval Islamic libraries where books are organized into specific genres and categories.

Home's first books, which appeared between 1988 and 1995, are essentially an outgrowth and elaboration of his earlier SMILE writings, though without their fragmentary-aphoristic character and eclectic mix of genres.

There are millions of books, so collectors necessarily specialize in one or more genres or sub-genres of literature.

There, he studied with Tamura Ransui, and wrote a number of books, some on scientific or nature topics, some satirical novels, in the kokkeibon and dangibon genres.

Eddison's books are written in a meticulously recreated Jacobean prose style, seeded throughout with fragments, often acknowledged but often frankly stolen, from his favorite authors and genres: Homer and Sappho, Shakespeare and Webster, Norse Saga and French medieval lyric.

The concept of the library catalog was introduced in the House of Wisdom and other medieval Islamic libraries, where books were organized into specific genres and categories.

Niehardt wrote to preserve and express elements of the pioneer past in books that range across a broad variety of genres, from travelogues to epic poetry.

After the Second World War, factories were retrofitted to produce Bakelite using a more efficient extrusion process which increased production and enabled the uses of Bakelite to extend into other genres: jewelry boxes, desk sets, clocks, radios, game pieces like chessmen, poker chips, billiard balls and Mah Jong sets.

Books with a quick and inexpensive printed format of tape binding and printed cardstock covers, the four monographs ( Players Book, Magic Book, Creatures Book, and Gamemaster Book ) were printed in order to assert Chaosium's copyrights in the run-up to the publishing and distribution of Deluxe Basic Roleplaying, a game system that is essentially RuneQuest 3rd Edition but with additions to allow play in other genres.

One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies.

Beginning in the 1930s, he wrote songs in the big band and swing genres that were popular at the time.

Other film genres typical of this period were adaptations of operettas, hospital melodramas, comedies and musicals.

The music and dance forms of the African diaspora, including African American music and many Caribbean genres like soca, calypso and Zouk ; and Latin American music genres like the samba, rumba, salsa ; and other clave ( rhythm )- based genres, were founded to varying degrees on the music of African slaves, which has in turn influenced African popular music.

Motion pictures were classified into genres by the film industry following the divisions already established in other media, particularly the stage.

Initial attempts in the United States in the early 1970s were generally based on sociological theory and focused on the function of women characters in particular film narratives or genres and of stereotypes as a reflection of a society's view of women.

While we would recognize many of the genres as Westerns, gangsters, musicals, etc., often the cycles were significantly more specific.

History paintings were traditionally regarded as the highest form of Western painting, occupying the most prestigious place in the hierarchy of genres, and considered the equivalent to the epic in literature.

Writers such as Giorgio Vasari followed public opinion in judging the best painters above all on their production of large canvases of history painting, and artists continued for centuries to strive to make their reputation by producing such works, often neglecting genres to which their talents were better suited.

Adams professes his love of other genres other than classical music ; his parents were jazz musicians, and he has also listened to rock music, albeit only passively.

Spanish composers wrote mostly for the vihuela ; their main genres were polyphonic fantasias and differencias ( variations ).

This was an extremely important feat as it completely changed the way hip hop beats were made, as well as other sample based genres.

Some of the most common genres were bibles, religious commentaries, philosophy, law and government texts.

New genres of vernacular literature were based on this language, including verse, drama and story forms, such as the qu and sanqu.

Common sacred genres were the mass, the motet, the madrigale spirituale, and the laude.

Common genres were the toccata, the prelude, the ricercar, the canzona, and intabulation ( intavolatura, intabulierung ).

Thereafter, until his death at the age of thirty by suicide, Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he had become successful in several genres.

Some artists, like Jelly Roll Morton, were present and performed both ragtime and jazz styles during the period the two genres overlapped.

Sega made sure that a wide variety of video game genres were represented on the system, in order to give it a broad appeal.

In the 1960s, critics recognized that the American genres were rapidly changing.

The female-dominant vocals of trip hop may be partially attributable to the influence of genres such as jazz and early R & B in which female vocalists were more common.