The sub-genre became a popular trend in the 1980s when actors who were known for their background in comedy such as Eddie Murphy, began to take roles in action films.

Similarly, the electroclash sub-genre began in New York at the end of the 1990s, combining synthpop, techno, punk and performance art.

Davies and Korner, having already split with Barber, now plugged in and began to play high powered electric blues that became the model for the sub-genre, forming the band Blues Incorporated.

This latter sub-genre of unwitting participants began in the 1940s with Allen Funt's Candid Microphone theatrical short films.

This sub-genre of contemporary works for gagaku instruments, which began in the 1960s, is called reigaku ( 伶楽 ).

However, Christian rock began to develop in the late 1960s, particularly out of the Jesus movement beginning in Southern California, and emerged as a sub-genre in the 1970s with artists like Larry Norman, usually seen as the first major " star " of Christian rock.

The Electroclash sub-genre began in New York at the end of the 1990s, combining synth pop, techno, punk and performance art.

This form of slang was born and is mainly spoken in Inner London and has been popularised by Grime, a sub-genre of rap music that began in the estates of that area.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

Films in this sub-genre blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine wit and one-liners with a thrilling plot and daring stunts.

Media fanzines were originally merely a sub-genre of SF fanzines, written by science fiction fans already familiar with apazines.

Feminist science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction which tends to deal with women's roles in society.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

An extension of this trend was the emergence of a type of horror with emphasis on depictions of torture, suffering and violent deaths, ( variously referred to as " horror porn ", " torture porn ", Splatterporn, and even " gore-nography ") with films such as The Collector, The Tortured, Saw, and Hostel, and their respective sequels, frequently singled out as examples of emergence of this sub-genre.

Super Mario Kart has been credited with inventing the " kart racing " sub-genre of video gaming and soon after its release several other developers attempted to duplicate its success.

This sub-genre will often make use of all branches with the whole force of the engaging nations, covering entire wars or long campaigns.

After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre — steampunk — with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.

In the early 1960s, historical epics fell out of favor with audiences, but Leone had shifted his attention to a sub-genre which came to be known as the " Spaghetti Western ", owing its origin to the American Western.

A sub-genre developed in this period was the city comedy, which deals satirically with life in London after the fashion of Roman New Comedy.

Each sub-genre is associated with a certain type of modeling.

Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to an existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgement, climate change, resource depletion, or some other general disaster.

This sub-genre often features Old West-type characters struggling with displacement in a " civilized " world that rejects their outdated brand of justice.

: A developing sub-genre, with roots in films such as Billy the Kid vs. Dracula ( 1966 ), which depicts the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid fighting against the notorious vampire.

Also known as Latin American Folk Metal, is a sub-genre of Folk Metal with influences of regional folk music such as Andean music.

After many years of a negative relationship with Norman, many CCM artists have credited Norman as an influence on their music, particularly in the sub-genre of Christian rock.

The Coup, part of the sub-genre of political hip hop, is politically communist in its music and aligns itself with other radical music groups such as Dead Prez and Rage Against The Machine.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

Poliziotteschi ( Italian pronunciation: ) films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s.

This sub-genre would be mined by dozens of increasingly violent movies throughout the subsequent decades, and Halloween became a successful independent film.

A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous martial arts fights between characters, usually as the films ' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development.

Space Western could be considered a sub-genre of space opera that transposes themes of the American Western books and film to a backdrop of futuristic space frontiers.

Night of the Living Dead ushered in the splatter film sub-genre.

Film historian Jeanine Basinger argues that a sub-genre, the World War II combat film, emerged in 1943.

This sub-genre depicts military action whereas the war film genre need not portray armed combat.

A popular sub-genre war films in the 1950s and 1960s was the prisoner of war film.

The success of Tim Burton's Batman ( 1989 ) led to a string of financially successful sequels, and within a single decade, had proven the viability of a new sub-genre of action film ; the comic-book movie.

* Martial Arts-A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films ' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development.

A critical and commercial success, the film is credited with reinvigorating the zombie sub-genre.

No matter what sub-genre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces.

In the last years developed another sub-genre of romantic action comedy, whic blends a romantic comedy film and an action film.

Mystery film is a sub-genre of the more general category of crime film and at times the thriller genre.

A related film sub-genre is spy films.

The history of anthropological filmmaking is intertwined with that of non-fiction and documentary filmmaking, although ethnofiction may be considered as a genuine sub-genre of ethnographic film.

" Mark Gatiss has referred to the film as a prime example of a short-lived sub-genre he called " folk horror ", grouping it with Satan's Claw and The Wicker Man.

In January 2006, film critic David Edelstein in New York Magazine credited Roth with creating the horror sub-genre ' torture porn ,' or ' gorno ,' using excessive violence to excite audiences like a sexual act.

He has also written the best-known analysis of Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man ; the volume includes recorded interviews with Jarmusch ; the book places the film in the acid western sub-genre.