A parody of Metastasian opera-seria it featured dazzling parodies of the high flown and emotive aria's found in that genre, as well as bold and innovative orchestrations, including the first known use of three tympani.

The remix featured a prominent Ofra Haza sample and many other vocal cut ups as well as a looped rhythm which, when speeded up, became a staple of the breakbeats genre.

Also considered Spaghetti Westerns is a film genre which combined traditional western ambiance with a Commedia all ' italiana-type comedy ; films including They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is STILL My Name !, which featured Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the stage names of Carlo Pedersoli and Mario Girotti.

Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character of the private eye, Cain featured less heroic protagonists and focused more on psychological exposition than on crime solving ; the Cain approach has come to be identified with a subset of the hardboiled genre dubbed " noir fiction ".

While most artists were from the country genre, a wide range of artists were featured.

The British film 28 Days Later ( 2002 ) featured an update on the genre with The Return of the Living Dead ( 1985 ) style of aggressive zombie.

The 2 Tone genre was named after 2 Tone Records, a Coventry, England record label that featured bands such as The Specials, Madness and The Selecter.

** Western fiction, the Western genre as featured in literature

Although the genre is called Boys ' Love ( commonly abbreviated as " BL "), the males featured are pubescent or older.

Color would quickly come to be associated with the musical genre, and numerous features were released in 1929 and 1930 that either featured color sequences or were filmed entirely in color, movies like On With the Show ( 1929 ), Gold Diggers of Broadway ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), and others.

While staying well within the thrash genre, the album was a departure from its predecessor's more traditional thrash metal style and featured many modern elements such as Hardcore, while the vocals showed influences from a broad spectrum of music.

In both cases, the genre featured scornful abuse, a bitter tone and sexual permissiveness.

Other famous examples of the genre include Maurice Ravel's Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré for violin and piano ; the Berceuse élégiaque by Ferruccio Busoni ; the Berceuse from the opera Jocelyn by Benjamin Godard ; the Berceuse by Igor Stravinsky which is featured in the Firebird ballet, and Lullaby for String Quartet by George Gershwin.

Universal also added glitzy production numbers to capitalize on the musical-comedy film genre of the day which featured The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis and his Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Martha Raye, The Merry Macs, and Dick Foran, singing " I'll Remember April " in " Ride ' Em Cowboy.

Blood Feast differed from its genre contemporaries in that it featured a character stalking and mutilating a series of beautiful women as well as featuring a previously-unseen level of blood and gore.

But irrespective of what type of recital it is, what is featured are compositions which form the core of this genre of music.

The window with a listing of characters was featured in 1988's Wasteland ; and the use of an active character to represent the party was part of Ultima V. The reviewer also noted that the design approach for game play was closer to SSI's own Wizard's Crown than to the other games in the genre.

The album was also critically well received and featured an alternative rock sound that pre-dated significant releases such as Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten, which would unexpectedly go on to break the genre into the mainstream.

Happy hardcore blended the Dutch hardcore sound with Eurodance and bubblegum pop, the genre ( also known as " happycore " for short ) featured pitched-up vocals and a less distorted 4 / 4 beat.

This final era of rebetiko ( mid 1940s-1953 ) also featured the emergence of night clubs ( κέντρα διασκεδάσεως ) as a means of popularizing music. By the late 1950s, rebetiko had declined ; it only survived in the form of Archontorebetiko ( Αρχοντορεμπέτικο " posh rebetiko "), a refined style of rebetiko that was far more accepted by the upper class than the traditional form of the genre.

Its successor Ikaruga ( 2001 ) featured improved graphics and was again acclaimed as one of the best games in the genre.

Unlike most other early games in the genre, it featured a science fiction setting inspired by the film Alien, but had gameplay that closely resembled later survival horror games in many ways.

Inspired by radio serials and comics in the action-adventure genre, it featured more realistic art, characters, and stories than Hanna-Barbera's previous cartoon programs.

The term ' indie ' and the chart itself was unrelated to a specific genre of music, and the chart featured a diverse range of music, from punk to reggae, to MOR and mainstream pop, including several hits from the likes of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan on the PWL label.

In a genre such as farce or parody, anagrams as names may be used for pointed and satiric effect.

Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

Big Shot, the fictional news source within Cowboy Bebop which provides information on various bounty heads, is a parody of the Western genre.

* Spy comedy: usually parody the clichés and camp elements characteristic to the espionage genre.

* The Worst ... Album in the World ... Ever ... EVER !, a parody of the long string of compilation albums released in the UK since the 1990s called The Best ( genre ) Album in the world ever !.

With his brother Ivan Raimi ( and crediting himself as Celia Abrams ), Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels ( 1989 ), a parody of the Outlaw biker film genre.

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, states, " The horror genre must keep terror and comedy in tension if it is to successfully tread the thin line that separates it from terrorism and parody ... this delicate balance is struck in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which the decaying corpse of Grandpa not only incorporates horrific and humorous effects, but actually uses one to exacerbate the other.

As literature, Tannhäuser ’ s poems parody the traditional genre, because he was a proponent of the leich ( lai ) style of poetry ; however, the Bußlied ( Poem on Atonement ) is unusual, given the eroticism of the remaining Codex Manesse.

These shows often served to parody the conventions of the reality TV genre.

Like the western genre, the spy-movies and urban-action films were starting to parody themselves, and with the growing revolution in CGI ( computer generated imagery ), the " real-world " settings began to give way to increasingly fantastic environments.

Sue K. Hurwitz said in her review for the School Library Journal that it is " a catalog of Heinlein's sins as an author ; it is sophomoric, sexist, militantly right wing, and excessively verbose ", and comments that the book's ending was " a devastating parody of SF conventions — will have genre addicts rolling on the floor.

The ideas of general semantics became a sufficiently important part of the shared intellectual toolkit of genre science fiction to merit parody by Damon Knight and others ; they have since shown a tendency to reappear ( often without attribution ) in the work of more recent writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Suzette Haden Elgin and Robert Anton Wilson.

Ken Roberts, best known as a soap-opera announcer ( Love of Life ; The Secret Storm ), was the narrator of some segments during season one, most notably the parody of the genre that had given him prominence, Love of Chair.

Bizet's early one-act opera Le docteur Miracle provides the first clear signs of his promise in this genre, its sparkling music including, according to Dean, " many happy touches of parody, scoring and comic characterisation ".

Darkwing Duck was also the first Disney Afternoon property that was produced completely as a genre parody.

Mirkin produced a pilot for Jeff of the Universe, a " sarcastic " parody of the science fiction genre.

Despite the poor sales figures, the game has been lauded by gamers for its humorous depictions of American culture and parody of the role-playing video game genre, and has since become a cult classic.

Of all EarthBounds elements, however, the most lauded was its humor, being universally praised by all critics for its comedic, albeit confusing, depictions of Western culture and parody of the RPG genre.

Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quixote as a parody of the resulting genre.

The slasher genre resurfaced into the mainstream in the mid 1990s, after being deconstructed in Wes Craven's Scream ( 1996 ), which was a parody of Halloween which had a similar effect on the movie industry.

Weird Al Yankovic made a style parody of this genre with his song " My Baby's in Love with Eddie Vedder ".

Although the genre is often overlooked, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office.

Mockbusters are another type of genre for parody films.