A key text is Jeff Nuttall's book Bomb Culture ( 1968 ), which traced this pervasive theme in popular culture back to Hiroshima.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

Though the main theme of Natyashastra deals with drama, dance is also widely featured, and indeed the two concepts have ever since been linked in Indian culture.

There is a similar hubris theme in Frankenstein, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and some golem-derived stories in popular culture.

The Gernika Peace Museum is a theme museum setting out the culture of peace.

In the Appalachian and Ozark regions, the hillbilly stereotype formed the basis for financially lucrative commercial interpretations of traditional culture through theme parks and theaters, such as Dogpatch USA in Arkansas, and Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

His claim summarizes a major theme in the book, claiming that Mexican culture is a labyrinth.

A 1998 study by historian Carolyn Hamilton summarizes much of the scholarship on Shaka towards the dawn of the 21st century in areas ranging from ideology, politics and culture, to the use of his name and image in a popular South African theme park, Shakaland.

In popular culture, the American New Wave group Wall of Voodoo performed a medley of Ennio Morricone's movie themes, including the theme for this movie.

With the establishment of language, culture, and religion, hunting became a theme of stories and myths, as well as rituals such as dance and animal sacrifice.

The Pilgrims ' story of seeking religious freedom has become a central theme of the history and culture of the United States.

Beginning in the early 14th century, the popularity of the seven deadly sins as a theme among European artists of the time eventually helped to ingrain them in many areas of Catholic culture and Catholic consciousness in general throughout the world.

Furthermore, one overarching theme of Western culture is a distancing from the natural world and progress toward technology and efficiency.

" The pre-empted shows were parodies of current TV shows ( e. g. The A-Team Makes One Cup of Coffee Last Five Hours, " Hanging Out " or " Malls ", 1984 ), movies ( e. g. Top Gun Gets Put on Latrine-Cleaning Duty, " Discipline ", 1986 ), or other pop culture icons ( e. g. Boy George Without Make-up, " Halloween ", 1984 ), and were often relevant to the theme of the current episode ( e. g. the pre-empted show for " Safety " ( 1981 ) was Hit and Run on Sesame Street ).

Constantine Palaiologos ' legacy is still a popular theme in Greek culture.

* Urban vs. rural: A variant of the underdog theme which involves a conflict between urban culture and rural culture, usually portraying the rural characters as morally superior.

This theme appears throughout the game in many forms, such as the numerous inclusions of American pop culture.

Tiki culture is a 20th-century theme used in Polynesian-style restaurants and clubs originally in the United States and then, to a lesser degree, around the world.

The first six books treated the mythic history of the non-Hellenic and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of Ancient Egypt ( book I ), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia ( II ), of North Africa ( III ), and of Greece and Europe ( IV – VI ).

Much like his two-note Jaws theme, the " five-tone " motif for Close Encounters has since become ingrained in popular culture ( the five tones are used by scientists to communicate with the visiting spaceship as a mathematical language as well as being incorporated into the film's signature theme ).

" We Are the Champions " has become an anthem for sporting victories, including as official theme song for 1994 FIFA World Cup, and has been often used or referenced in popular culture ( see below ).

Tubular bells have been popularized in western culture by the song " Carol of the Bells ", and the Mike Oldfield album Tubular Bells and its sequels, the latter best known as the opening theme from The Exorcist.

A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.

Although the poet maintains the theme of possessions as important even in death, the glory of battle is challenged by the vicious nature of war.

Labour campaigned on the theme of " Let Us Face the Future " and positioned themselves as the party best placed to rebuild Britain after the war, while the Conservatives ' campaign centred around Churchill.

Tyrtaeus composed elegies on a war theme, apparently for a Spartan audience.

Traditional myth, with its exotic settings, heroic adventures and epic battles, offered potential for romantic melodrama as well as for political comments on a war theme, so that his plays are an extraordinary mix of elements.

Princess Ida ( 1884 ) spoofed women's education and male chauvinism and continued the theme from Iolanthe of the war between the sexes.

In the aftermath of a war that had for the first time properly engaged Sartre in political matters, he set forth a body of work which " reflected on virtually every important theme of his early thought and began to explore alternative solutions to the problems posed there " ( Aronson 1980: 121 ).

There is a strong theme of homecoming ( nostos ) in the Odyssey, because Odysseus is on a journey home after the Trojan war has finally ended.

This is also the theme of Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) in which Robert De Niro plays Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle who wages a one man war against society whilst he makes plans to assassinate a presidential candidate.

The first major theme of the interwar period was the war — the inhumanity, violence, and terror, but also the heroic actions of the Czech Legion ( Rudolf Medek, Josef Kopta, František Langer, Jaroslav Hašek ).

In prose, new authors abandoned polemics about socialism and instead turned toward personal and civic morality ( Jan Trefulka, Milan Kundera, Ivan Klíma, Pavel Kohout ), the theme of war and occupation ( Jiří Weil, Arnošt Lustig ), especially the fate of Jews.

Dumézil recalls that in the Indian epic poem Mahabharata the episodes of Karttikeya, god of war and son of Agni and of Agni and the daughters of Nila bear the same theme of the flames as the sex organ of the god.

Through his language, he tends to characterize Rome as “ masculine ” and Egypt as “ feminine .” According to Gayle Greene, “ the ‘ feminine ’ world of love and personal relationships is secondary to the ‘ masculine ’ world of war and politics, has kept us from realizing that Cleopatra is the play ’ s protagonist, and so skewed our perceptions of character, theme, and structure .” The highlighting of these starkly contrasting qualities of the two backdrops of Antony and Cleopatra, in both Shakespeare ’ s language and the words of critics, brings attention to the characterization of the title characters, since their respective countries are meant to represent and emphasize their attributes.

One recurring theme is the periodic appearance of Odin, the foremost among Norse deities, associated with “ war, wisdom, ecstasy, and poetry .” He is typically depicted as a mysterious, hooded old man with one eye.

Recalled by Michael I Rangabe in 811, Leo became governor of the Anatolic theme and conducted himself well in a war against the Arabs in 812, defeating the forces of the Cilician thughur under Thabit ibn Nasr.

However, the band stated that they were simply using war as a lyrical theme and denied supporting Nazism, although its guitarist Morgan Håkansson had stated " that we in Marduk want to prevent immigration to Sweden and that I was proud over the fact that my grandfather was a serving German officer during the second World War " when approached on the issue by Rock Hard Magazine from Germany-known for having pressed many black metal bands such as Gorgoroth on the subject of NSBM.

It has been commented that the Idiran-Culture war, with its juxtaposition of a religiously fanatic species fighting ( and eventually succumbing to ) the atheistic Culture, shows the author's theme of " antipathy to religious belief, although nominally not to the believers ".

The overall theme of the record was partly inspired by the life of Ray and Dave Davies ' brother-in-law, Arthur Anning, who had married their older sister, Rose — herself the subject of an earlier Kinks song, " Rosie Won't You Please Come Home " ( 1966 )— and had emigrated to Australia after the war.

A major theme of Irving's writings since the 1980s was his belief that it had been a great blunder on the part of Britain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that ever since then and as a result of that decision, Britain had slipped into an unstoppable decline.

The war, and the difficulty of coming to terms with its horrors, was a central theme of his next film Muriel ( 1963 ), which used a fractured narrative to explore the mental states of its characters.

In all of the varied aspects of Ogoun, however, there is the dominant theme of power and militancy which serves to exemplify his position as a spirit of war.

The scheme enlists the aid of a country music singer, who creates several theme songs for the war ; a " fad king "; and a costume designer, who helps create a fictional special forces unit to fight the war's supposed battles.

In order to come up with his ' war ', he contacts a Hollywood producer named Stanley Motss ( Hoffman ), who brings in a series of specialists who help construct a theme song, build up interest, and fake some footage of an orphan in Albania.

Its main theme is the commemoration of local World War I veterants -- 1580 Gogebic area men perished in the war.

* Martha Gellhorn, the American novelist, journalist and war correspondent, said that " Pilger has taken on the great theme of justice and injustice ...