" Food writer Mark Kurlansky links this vision of food directly to food writing, giving the genre's scope and range when he observes: “ Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man ’ s relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion.

Though Bogart's slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett's vision of Spade ( blond, well-built & mischievous ), his portrayal was well-received, and is generally regarded as an influence on both film noir & the genre's archetypal private detective.

* Panel Discussions-On a variety of subjects, such as technology of the future, writing, publishing, the philosophical and sociological implications of the genre's works, recent scientific discoveries, etc.

" Cyberpunk is often set in urbanized, artificial landscapes, and " city lights, receding " was used by Gibson as one of the genre's first metaphor s for cyberspace.

One of the cyberpunk genre's prototype characters is Case, from Gibson's Neuromancer.

A more analogous case is that of the screwball comedy, widely accepted by film historians as constituting a " genre ": the screwball is defined not by a fundamental attribute, but by a general disposition and a group of elements, some — but rarely and perhaps never all — of which are found in each of the genre's films.

“ Let the Music Play ”, by Shannon, is often named as the genre's first hit, and its sound, called " The Shannon Sound ," as the foundation of the genre.

Biohazard is considered to be a strong influence on the genre's development.

Although Orbison is counted as a rock and roll pioneer, and has been cited by numerous critics as one of the genre's most influential musicians, his style was noted for how it departed from the norm.

* Comic science fiction is a sub-genre that exploits the genre's conventions for comic effect.

There is no consensus on a precise starting point of the New Wave-Adam Roberts refers to Alfred Bester as having singlehandedly invented the genre, and in the introduction to a collection of Leigh Brackett's short fiction, Michael Moorcock referred to her as one of the genre's " true godmothers ".

The influence of Led Zeppelin is also evident, particularly in the work of Soundgarden, whom Q magazine noted were " in thrall to ' 70s rock, but contemptuous of the genre's overt sexism and machismo.

Boy's Love, on the other hand, is used as a genre's name and refers to all titles regardless of sexual content or the ages of characters in the story ( with the exception of titles featuring prepubescent boys, which are categorized as shotacon, a distinct genre with only peripheral connections to BL ).

Touch of Evil is one of the last examples of film noir in the genre's classic era ( from the early 1940s until the late 1950s ).

: This subgenre in its current usage is imitative in its style to mock, comment on, or trivialise the genre's established traits, subjects, auteurs ' styles or some other target by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

Comic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that exploits the genre's conventions for comic effect.

In Japan, the genre's beginning can be traced to Bokosuka Wars ( 1983 ), an early strategy RPG ( or " simulation RPG "); the game revolves around the player leading an army across a battlefield against enemy forces in real-time while recruiting / spawning soldiers along the way, for which it is considered by Ray Barnholt of 1UP. com to be an early prototype real-time strategy game.

Several of his stories have been nominated for the genre's awards ; " The Ugly Chickens " -- about the extinction of the dodo -- won a Nebula award for best novelette in 1980, and also a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1981 ; this is perhaps his best known work.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

Have I Got News for You is often cited as beginning the increasing domination of panel shows in British TV comedy, and remains one of the genre's key standard-bearers.

A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming that has typically been scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the present ; the genre's peak in popularity mostly ended in the 2000s while the popularity of cable and satellite television, as well as the internet, has provided 24 hour access to cartoons for children.

One compact definition is that postmodernism rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, eradicating the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and disrupting genre's conventions with collision, collage, and fragmentation.

Morally upright, he is not fooled by the genre's usual < i > femmes fatales </ i >, such as Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep.

Blabbermouth. net said that the album is " considered to be among the genre's all-time classics ".

Jason Anderson of CBC News compares the etymology of " neo soul " to that of " new wave " and comments, " As imperfect as the term may be, neo-soul is still an effective tag to describe the mix of chic modernity and time-honoured tradition that distinguished the genre's best examples.

Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.

Today, bands who continue the style of the genre's pioneers are often referred to as traditional doom metal.

Dubstep rhythms are usually syncopated, and often incorporate triplets and the One drop rhythm common to traditional reggae, a reference to the genre's Dub music influences.

In particular, he has sought to help bring back to popularity the western, often playing one of that genre's typical characters but thrust into a modern context.

Chalga is often criticized by conservative people for the perceived tawdriness, loose morals, the shocking look of its singers, the genre's Eastern, Arabic, Arabesque and gypsy roots, and its sexually-explicit lyrics.

The main cause of failure among video game adaptations is often cited as the genre's tendency for its films to drastically differ from source material.

Regarding her memorable fountain scene, which is often cited as one of the genre's most unforgettable performances, Kimmer recalled filming that day with daytime columnist Michael Fairman.

In the United States, the terms " twee ", " twee pop " and " cutie " ( all pejorative terms in the UK ) have been adopted retrospectively to describe some examples of indie pop, owing to what has been called the genre's " revolt into childhood ".

" Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine called the game " archaic yet charming " and recommended it only as a window into the genre's past.

The chill out genre's increased following was noticed by the Ministry of Sound, a record label which specializes in dance music, which then began to produce a series of albums called The Chillout Sessions.

Steven Spielberg, one of the genre's most well-known figures aptly called 2001, ' the big bang of science-fiction.

" Allmovie wrote, " Terror Train is too mediocre a piece of work to raise interest from anyone but the genre's most devoted fans ", while Time Out London called it " better than most of its kind.

Rigsar's popular grew steadily in the 1970s, when the genre's modern form developed ; Dasho Thinley, a schoolteacher, composer and performed a song called Dorozam which was very influential.

Though the Spaghetti Westerns from Fistful of Dollars and on featured larger amounts of violence and killings compared to earlier American Western films, they generally shared the parental genre's restricted attitude toward explicit sexuality.

The Living End generally describe their style as " punkabilly " rather than psychobilly because they do not share the genre's fascination with horror imagery, though they do blend punk rock and rockabilly at fast tempos, use a double bass and share much the same fanbase as psychobilly.

The Megami Tensei series differs among other Japanese role-playing video games because it generally eschews the genre's typical pseudo-Medieval settings and sword and sorcery elements.