Popular examples of these types of films include Back to the Future, Spaceballs, Ghostbusters, Evolution, Innerspace, Galaxy Quest, Mars Attacks !, and Men in Black.

Popular comedy series included the St Trinians films and the " Doctor " series, beginning with Doctor in the House in 1954.

Popular films depicting the hippie ethos and lifestyle include Woodstock, Easy Rider, Hair, The Doors, Across the Universe, Taking Woodstock, and Crumb.

* List of films that break the fourth wall ( The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopædia )

By the middle of the decade Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films, such as The Crime of Monsieur Lange ( Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, 1935 ), Life Belongs to Us ( 1936 ) and La Marseillaise ( 1938 ), reflect the movement's politics.

Popular plays, musicals, Vaudevillian and burlesque acts, silent films, talkies and favorite local and national entertainers, such as Will Rogers, appeared at the theatre during its heyday.

Popular films, television programs, manga, music, and video games all developed from older artistic and literary traditions, and many of their themes and styles of presentation can be traced to traditional art forms.

In 2008, Popular Mechanics named The Truman Show as one of the 10 most prophetic science fiction films.

In 1938, the party abolished handshaking in films and theater, and on November 21, 1938 the Ministry of Popular Culture issued orders banning the publishing of photographs showing people shaking hands.

Popular actors in teen films have included Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills, and Sal Mineo, in the 1960s and 70s, members of the Brat Pack, John Cusack in the 80s and early 90s, and Sarah Michelle Gellar, Neve Campbell, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seann William Scott, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jason Biggs, and other teenage sensations in the late 90s and throughout the 2000s, who were either pre-teens or teens at the time of the movies themselves.

* Popular WAM model " Jilly Bean " has been featured on many international films and videos.

Samsara was awarded " Audience Award for The Most Popular Film " by the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival, among other awards from other festivals, and made it to top ten films in Italy and France.

Popular club gear for cybergoths includes tight black pants, tight black vests or shirts cut from ripped, solid or fishnet fabrics, resembling costumes from 19th Century Gothic novels or early black and white horror films from the mid-20th century.

Renoir made a wide variety of films some influenced by the leftist Popular Front group and even a lyrical short feature film.

Among his films are Ride the Pink Horse ( 1948 ), Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid ( 1948 ), Flamingo Road ( 1949 ), White Heat ( 1949 ), Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), A Place in the Sun ( 1951 ), How to Marry a Millionaire ( 1953 ), The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell ( 1955 ), How to Be Very, Very Popular ( 1955 ), Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ), Auntie Mame ( 1958 ), and Visit to a Small Planet ( 1960 ).

Cinecolor was also prominently employed in processing Paramount's Popular Science series of short films -- although later prints were made by Consolidated Film Industries under their Magnacolor process.

The Popular Center of Culture ( PCC ) sought " to establish a cultural and political link with the Brazilian masses by putting on plays in factories and working-class neighborhoods, producing films and records, and by participating in literacy progams.

* Popular films with school bands in its storyline

* Popular collegiate marching bands used in films

* Website of Popular Science films including Phantom Corsair segment

Popular and pioneering film makers included the Bamforths in Yorkshire, William Haggar and his family business in Wales and Frank Mottershaw whose film, A Daring Daylight Robbery, started the chase genre.

Popular examples include The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, as well as the Girl Genius series by Phil and Kaja Foglio, although seeds of the genre may be seen in certain works of Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer and Steve Stiles, and in such games as Space 1889 and Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures.

Outside the main scene of the Brazilian Popular Music festivals, the sambists founded the Bienal do Samba in the late 1960s, and it became the space for the big names of the genre and followers.

Popular themes of the genre include murder, suicide, depression, abuse, mutilation, war, barbarism, drug abuse, terminal illness, domestic violence, sexual violence, paedophilia, insanity, nightmare, disease, racism, homophobia, sexism, disability ( both physical and mental ), chauvinism, corruption, and crime.

Popular R & B artists such as Rhianna, British R & B stars Jay Sean and Taio Cruz, as well as British pop star Lily Allen on her second album, have also embraced the genre.

Popular culture backlash against the Video Recordings Act included the May 1984 release of " Nasty " by the punk-goth outfit, The Damned, who celebrated the condemned genre with the lyrics, " I fell in love with a video nasty.

Popular authors began pushing the boundaries of the genre and plots, and characters began to modernize.

Popular music of the time was readily adapted, especially the minstrel music genre, songs of whose couplets were often of a suitable metrical length.

Popular names in the genre are Bugz in the Attic, Seiji, Kaidi Tatham, Domu, Afronaught, IG Culture, Stephane and Alex Attias, New Zealand-born Mark De Clive-Lowe, 4hero ( Dego and Marc Mac ), Manchester's Phuture Lounge collective label boss Maddslinky Zed Bias, Somatik, and Opolopo.

Popular artists in this genre include Krishna Das, Deva Premal, Bhagavan Das and Snatam Kaur.

Popular music, sometimes abbreviated pop music ( although the term " pop " is used in some contexts as a more specific musical genre ), is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are broadly popular or intended for mass consumption and wide commercial distribution — in other words, music that forms part of popular culture.

While he mainly composed in the style of Greek Popular music, Laïka, Xarchakos also composed in the classical music genre.

Frank Vizard of Popular Mechanics hailed it as " the new top gun of flight simulators ", and Doug Bailey of The Boston Globe considered it to be the " first real serious challenge to Microsoft's dominance of the genre ".

Popular artists performing in the Hip Hop Tuga genre and who have gathered many followers in the underground subculture include Valete, Halloween, Da Weasel, Boss AC, Sam the Kid, Filhos dum Deus Menor, Dealema, Barrako 27, Mind Da Gap, Micro and DJ Bomberjack, Tchapo ( Anonymous ).

Popular during the mid 1980s in continental Europe, Matt Bianco was part of the new jazz pop genre, that they shared with acts such as Working Week, Sade, Everything but the Girl, and The Style Council.

In Greece, modern pop music for example incorporated the traditions of Laïko (" Popular "), a genre based mainly on the Melos of Asia Minor Greeks.

Popular shows of the late night talk show genre include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Conan.

Li Jinhui is generally regarded as the " Father of Chinese Popular Music ", having established the genre in the 1920s.

Popular fiction and genre fiction at the start of the century also included detective fiction, like the mysteries of the author and journalist Gaston Leroux who is credited with the first " locked-room puzzle " -- The Mystery of the Yellow Room, featuring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille ( 1908 ) -- and the immensely popular The Phantom of the Opera ( 1910 ).

Popular pulp fiction magazines like Black Mask capitalized on this, as authors such as Carrol John Daly published violent stories that focused on the mayhem and injustice surrounding the criminals, not the circumstances behind the crime.

Popular and affordable encyclopaedias such as Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia and the Children's Encyclopaedia appeared in the early 1920s.

Popular culture continues to generate large amounts of flaming and countless flamewars across the Internet, such as the constant debates between fans of Star Trek and Star Wars.

Popular soft drinks include Schorle, juice or wine mixed with sparkling mineral water, with Apfelschorle being especially popular in southern Germany, and Spezi, made with cola and an orange-flavored drink such as Fanta.

Though spared the bloody civil wars wracking its neighbors, the Honduran army quietly waged a campaign against Marxist-Leninist militias such as Cinchoneros Popular Liberation Movement, notorious for kidnappings and bombings, and many non-militants.

Popular works that depict John beyond the Robin Hood legends, such as James Goldman's play and later film, The Lion in Winter, set in 1183, commonly present him as an " effete weakling ", in this instance contrasted with the more masculine Henry II.

Aided by Communist and leftist governments such as the former South Yemen ( People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ), the rebels formed the Dhofar Liberation Front, which later merged with the Marxist-dominated Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf ( PFLOAG ).

Popular brands include, in addition to domestic Taffel, a few foreign ones such as Estrella and Pringles.

Popular secular forms such as the chanson and madrigal spread throughout Europe.

After a decline during the economic depression, Škoda was again successful with models such as the Popular in the late 1930s.

Popular treatises included books such as The Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life and Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.

Popular titles included Sega's own series, notably Sonic the Hedgehog ; Disney movie extensions, such as The Lion King ; and 3rd-party developer games like Shaq Fu.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

* Popular book series such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Dan Brown's " Robert Langdon " ( consisting of The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol ) saw increased interest in various genres such as fantasy, romance, vampire fiction, and detective fiction, as well as young-adult fiction in general.

Popular Japanese ramen chains serve ramen alongside distinctly Japanese dishes such as tempura and yakitori, something which would be seen as odd in Japan.

Popular weapons are AR-15 and semiautomatic variants of AK-47 and Finnish RKs, such as RK-92S and a semiautomatic variant of RK-76.

For decades, magazines such as Popular Mechanics and Mechanix Illustrated offered a way for readers to keep current on useful practical skills and techniques.

Popular movements in the global South such as, for instance, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa have sometimes refused to work with NGOs arguing that this will compromise their autonomy.

Popular copyleft licenses, such as the GPL, have a clause allowing components to interact with non-copyleft components as long as the communication is abstract, such as executing a command-line tool with a set of switches or interacting with a Web server.

" Popular schemes such as the " Women Empowering Women " do exactly this.

Popular histories, such as the books of Paweł Jasienica, tend to present Sigismund as the principal source of these destructive processes ; whereas academic histories are usually not damning of him.