Sentences with phrase «in a popular genre of»

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Evan Shapiro, executive vice president of NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises, announced the new service in a presentation Thursday morning in New York, where he hammered home the idea that comedy is the most popular genre for streaming programming and that Seeso aims to provide content curated for and by «comedy nerds.»

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

Film Farsi refers to the vulgar genre films and Bollywood knockoffs that were popular under the shah, typically featuring women in miniskirts and scenes of debauchery in second - rate cabarets.

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Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

One of the things that makes The Exorcist different than some of the other recently popular shows in the horror genre (like The X-Files, The Walking Dead, True Blood, etc.) is that it isn't based on supernatural lore, sci - fi, ghosts or aliens.

Moreover, within the framework of these rubrics, it does not really make sense why Whitehead from 1912 on wrote and published — in addition to studies in natural philosophy and natural science — a series of what may be called contributions to popular philosophy, a genre which the secondary literature usually passes by In our reconstruction of the development of Whitehead's basic philosophical problem the significance of this phase of his activity becomes obviouin addition to studies in natural philosophy and natural science — a series of what may be called contributions to popular philosophy, a genre which the secondary literature usually passes by In our reconstruction of the development of Whitehead's basic philosophical problem the significance of this phase of his activity becomes obviouin natural philosophy and natural science — a series of what may be called contributions to popular philosophy, a genre which the secondary literature usually passes by In our reconstruction of the development of Whitehead's basic philosophical problem the significance of this phase of his activity becomes obviouIn our reconstruction of the development of Whitehead's basic philosophical problem the significance of this phase of his activity becomes obvious.

In fact, if you go to the library or browse the shelves at Barnes & Noble or check out Amazon's best - sellers in the parenting genre, you will find a predominance of popular, punishment - based, obedience - focused parenting guideIn fact, if you go to the library or browse the shelves at Barnes & Noble or check out Amazon's best - sellers in the parenting genre, you will find a predominance of popular, punishment - based, obedience - focused parenting guidein the parenting genre, you will find a predominance of popular, punishment - based, obedience - focused parenting guides.

At this point in the fall season, almost every popular retailer, of both fast fashion and luxury genres are carrying velvet pieces that slash the concept of reserving the soft, opulent stuff for just formal settings.

The truth be told if westerns were still a popular genre I would have loved to have seen several of these characters in solo features; that would have eventually led up to an Avengers style The Magnificent Seven movie event.

Action and adventure movies were the most common among 43 % of men, while comedy came in second as the most popular genre (21 %).

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, from African American musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, along with country music.

The LiveXLive platform has featured performances and content from some of the most popular artists in various music genres, including Rihanna, Katy Perry, Metallica, Duran Duran, Radiohead, Chance The Rapper, Bruce Springsteen, Major Lazer and Maroon 5.

In our survey, Rock and Pop was by far the most popular genre, with 65 % of people displaying it on their eHarmony profile, with R&B a distant second with 8 %.

Across all genres of music, what all popular anthems of love have in common (even «Everytime We Touch,» I suppose) is the desire to hold your loved one close and express what's in your heart.

K - pop (abbreviation of Korean popular music or Korean pop; Hangul: 케이팝) is a music genre originating in South Korea, characterized by a wide variety Idols who left their group and found success; Awesome K Pop Cosplays; 10 Scariest Sasaeng Stories; Backstreet Boys express how they are huge BTS fans

true crime genre, which is one of the most popular forms of literature in Australia.

K - pop (abbreviation of Korean popular music or Korean pop; Hangul: 케이팝) is a music genre originating in South Korea, characterized by a wide variety Profile.

The sports biography has maintained its status of being one of the most popular genres in the American film industry today by emphasizing the main character preparing for an important game.

It's a ground - breaker like «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), the first major film about an interracial romance; it uses the chemistry of popular stars in a reliable genre to sidestep what looks like controversy.

Outside of sharing part of a name and genre, this isn't related to the popular Trials series, but rather the third entry in the Urban Trial series that found a niche on Nintendo 3DS.

[Downloadable Game] Inspired by the popular and addictive «tower defense» genre, PixelJunk Monsters takes the simple real - time strategy concept of building, researching and base defending and presents it in a uniquely attractive style.

While Pokémon has evolved (yes, pun intended) into other genres like puzzle games (like my personal favorite, Pokémon Puzzle League), card games, the wildly - popular Pokémon GO on mobile, and even photography simulators (I still hold Pokémon Snap dear to my heart), few games in the series have gone to the lengths of Detective Pikachu to turn the world of Pokémon on its head.

Dead pan Leslie Nielsen stars as Dick Steele, agent WD - 40, in this uneven send - up of spy thrillers and other popular genres done in the hilarious style of the Zucker / Abrams «Naked Gun» series.

- God Eater 2 (10/9/10 / 9, 38 out of 40 points): The second most popular franchise in the «monster hunting» genre beyond Monster Hunter itself, the Vita version of the new God Eater earned nearly universal praise.

As we've seen a few times in this entry, Broken Age was another popular Kickstarter project, with Tim Schafer's return to the point and click adventure genre striking a chord that helped to really establish Kickstarter as a viable means of funding.

A sensitive and astute consideration of a film working in the seemingly popular contemporary genre of the multiple, interlocking narrative.

It's reminiscent of other, more prominent titles in the so - called «Asia Extreme» genre piloted by acclaimed filmmakers such as Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins) and Park Chan - Wook, who caused the genre to explode overseas with his popular Oldboy in 2003.

While popular in New Zealand, these were mainly cult films for international audiences who had to purposefully seek out these quirky and raunchy examples of genre by the then - little known Kiwi auteur.

The one certainty is that WWII served as a catalyst for the organic evolution of the genre's texture, and that noir remains to this day one of the most popular film styles for revision, emulation, and in the case of The Man Who Wasn't There, resurrection.

Misan Sagay's script does drag in places, which is a shame, as ten - fifteen minutes could have easily been cut out to deliver a much tighter film, but there is enough going on to keep the viewer interested throughout, especially if one is a fan of this hugely popular genre.

King Hu rose to prominence in the 1960s and»70s as a superb director of wuxia films («A Touch of Zen»), a popular Chinese action genre of swords, sorcery and chivalrous heroes.

Yakuza stories within a modern gangster framework are immensely popular in the Japanese cinema, and Paul Schrader, former editor of the American film magazine Cinema, wrote a comprehensive survey of the genre for a Film Comment of about a year ago.

I do realize that in horror circles, Hellraiser is something akin to a classic, but as is always the case, I don't really grade films based on popular opinion among fanboys of the genre.

Genre played a welcome role in the Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).

Project Zero 3: The Tormented follows the popular Japanese survival horror genre that puts players in the role of Rei, a beautiful yet cursed young woman who is plagued by overwhelming guilt and twisted nightmares that mends the real - world with the supernatural.

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

by Walter Chaw Lyrical, dislocated, and grim in the fashion of a Derek Jarman film (and director John Maybury served as editor on Jarman's The Last of England), The Jacket, like Altered States, Miracle Mile, Jacob's Ladder, and 12 Monkeys before it, is the sort of doom - filled genre romance that's regularly underestimated in popular contemporary conversation.

In a move destined to delight genre fans, Deadline reports that popular Game of Thrones actors Charles Dance and Lena Headey will mix it up with the undead — no, not wights — in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and ZombieIn a move destined to delight genre fans, Deadline reports that popular Game of Thrones actors Charles Dance and Lena Headey will mix it up with the undead — no, not wights — in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombiein the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

It's a western first and foremost, made in the mold of that once - popular genre but told with a cast of lizards, turtles, rabbits, and such.

The adaptation of Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø «s novel by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (of Let the Right One In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy fame) promises to be more than just a typical murder mystery set in a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre latelIn and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy fame) promises to be more than just a typical murder mystery set in a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre latelin a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre lately.

«Django Unchained» could also be called a revival of the Blaxploitation movie, a genre that became popular in the 1970s featuring mostly black casts, soundtracks with soul and funky music such as wah - wah guitars, with African - Americans taking revenge on «crackers.»

An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn't the first mash - up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild West and Back to the Future Part III are other examples), but it is one of the first in a popular burgeoning trend in mixing genres that has seen books like «Pride and Prejudice & Zombies» become popular.

The innovative shooter was immensely popular, and arguably responsible for the success of the Xbox in America, as well as the future success of the first - person shooter genre on consoles.

That's not to say that it's BAD, per se — the Monster Hunter series are games geared towards grinding, a genre that is far more popular in its native Japanese market (and a big part of why Capcom took a while to decide to bring it to the West).

Set up as a separate entity in 1990, with its first «official» production the Anthony Minghella - directed romance Truly Madly Deeply, starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, BBC Films has had a hand in more than 250 films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward Iin 1990, with its first «official» production the Anthony Minghella - directed romance Truly Madly Deeply, starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, BBC Films has had a hand in more than 250 films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward Iin more than 250 films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward Iin a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward IIn the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward II.

As any genre gets popular, more films are created in a similar fashion, which dilute their popularity and force filmmakers to create alternative or deconstructed versions of the original text.

What used to be the most popular genre in mainstream movies is now mainly the preserve of smaller budget films with more adult themes, and they don't come more «adult» than this latest bloody saga.

Oh yes new games come out that add something interesting to the formula, and games come out that remind us why the genre became so popular to begin with, but it's only in the last year or so we've seen an evolutionary shift in tower defense, and what's more is that this shift is so simple, it's amazing not many developers thought of it before.

Band of Outsiders hews closer to the template of his groundbreaking 1960 debut Breathless in marrying a comprehensible plot with riffs on popular genres and fairly fleshed - out characters, all marinated in his distinctly cool modernist style.