In addition to avant-garde experiments and lurid films of Weimar street life, UFA was also the studio of the bergfilm, a uniquely German genre that glorified and romanticized mountain climbing, downhill skiing, and avalanche-dodging.

But his facility in this genre was not great.

Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

The question regarding the genre of Acts is complicated by the fact that it was written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke.

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning, it is the first in a genre of " fish out of water " themed television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS.

The genre of novellas under which Esther falls was common during both the Persian and Hellenistic periods to which scholars have dated the book of Esther.

The destruction of cities by foreign invaders, and its resulting catastrophic suffering, unfortunately, was very common in the ancient Near East and, therefore, we can observe examples of the lament form / genre concerning destroyed cities and temples from extra-biblical sources, particularly from early Sumerian Literature dating to the late third and early second millennia BC.

He was one of the first in the genre to write, produce, and perform his own songs.

A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad, which mixed the genre with Afro-American music.

Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, " Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.

Some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics, though their content was generally less explicit, and others resembled the output of mainstream publishers in format and genre but were published by smaller artist-owned companies or by single artists.

The 1999 game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was also created by Meier and is in the same genre, but with a futuristic / space theme.

Smith's most celebrated short story is his first-published, " Scanners Live in Vain ", which led many of its earliest readers to assume that " Cordwainer Smith " was a new pen name for one of the established giants of the genre.

In late 1997 and in early 1998 the " space adventure " genre was a very popular TV theme in Japan.

Though the progressive rock genre was beginning to decrease in popularity, concept albums had become a medium that continued.

She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction.

The film was James Stewart's first western ( he would not return to the genre until 1950, with Broken Arrow and Winchester 73 ), and was also notable for a ferocious cat-fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel, which apparently caused a mild censorship problem at the time of release.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

" Le Freak " was a popular 1978 single that is regarded as an iconic song of the genre.

By the late 1970s, melodrama was nearly finished as an overt genre, as the hunger for realism dominated film in groundbreaking movies like Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

Émile Gaboriau was a pioneer of the detective fiction genre in France.

The language used by this approach is primarily negative, and the tathāgatagarbha genre of sutras can be seen as an attempt to state orthodox Buddhist teachings of dependent origination using positive language instead, to prevent people from being turned away from Buddhism by a false impression of nihilism.

Although primarily known for his idealised landscapes and seascapes, Bannister also executed portraits, biblical and mythological scenes, and genre scenes.

The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s.

Jan van Goyen would be classified primarily as a landscape artist with an eye for the genre subjects of everyday life.

Rock and roll ( often written as rock & roll or rock ' n ' roll ) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music.

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts.

Despite these genre blending elements, wuxia is primarily a historical genre of fiction.

The material that would be classified into this genre primarily involves gay relationships between the handsome or cute ( male ) characters, usually erotic.

Shōnen-ai originally connoted ephebophilia or pederasty in Japan, but from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, was used to describe a new genre of shōjo manga, primarily by the Year 24 Group, about beautiful boys in love.

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.

In addition, the superhero fantasy genre has been described as having been derived from the cowboy hero, only powered up to omnipotence in a primarily urban setting.

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.

* Libel ( poetry ), a verse genre primarily of the Renaissance

Free jazz has primarily been an instrumental genre.

He threw himself into the musical life of the city, primarily as a champion of the new genre of Czech opera.

In recent years, artists such as Selena, often referred to as " The Queen of Tejano ", Alicia Villarreal, Elsa Garcia, Laura Canales, La Mafia, Jay Perez, Mazz, and Jennifer Peña have transformed Tejano music from primarily Tejano, ethnic form of music to a genre with wide appeal in people who like Tejano.

Although the formative influences on the genre were primarily British, the bands that developed and codified power pop in the 1970s were nearly all American.

Prose poetry can be considered either primarily poetry or prose, or a separate genre altogether.

The genre developed primarily in Sweden, but has spread to neighbouring countries Denmark, Norway and the Swedish speaking regions of Finland.

Worldbeat is a music genre that primarily refers to a blending of Western pop music with traditional / folk or world music influences ( examples in Section 2 of this article ).

Video game journalists have praised GoldenEye 007 for proving that it is possible to create a " fun " FPS experience on a console in both single-player and multiplayer modes ; when the game was released, the FPS was primarily a genre for PC gamers.

The language used by this approach is primarily negative, and the Tathagatagarbha genre of sutras can be seen as an attempt to state orthodox Buddhist teachings of dependent origination using positive language instead, to prevent people from being turned away from Buddhism by a false impression of nihilism.

Before 1980 he was known primarily as a commercial filmmaker who could efficiently direct as many as eight genre pictures a year, helping to fulfill the quota for domestic pictures set by the government.

Zouk live shows soon began to draw on American and European rock and heavy metal traditions, and the genre spread across the world, primarily in developing countries.