In commenting on Friday the 13ths seventh place ranking, the general consensus among the reviewers was that even though the Halloween franchise started the slasher genre, Friday the 13th became one of "the most influential franchises of the 1980s" and that its commercial success through 11 films, novelizations, comic books, and other collectables is proof of its legacy.
These totals exclude two UK publications (the serious genre Sunday Telegraph and the tabloid genre Daily Star on Sunday) which printed no relevant articles and are not represented in the sample.
We'll be looking at a different genre every day, starting with a history of pop, then moving on to rock, hip-hop and R&B, indie, dance, world and folk, and jazz.
But neither is it the worst example of a genre whose day probably has some time to run, and Sam Bourne, unless Jonathan Freedland is hiding his light under a bushel in the manner of the pseudonymous activist collective Luther Blissett, should not feel shy to call it his own.
President Vladimir Putin's contribution to the genre on Wednesday was a fine example.
This is subject matter ripe for the Hollywood rom-com: you know the genre – Freaky Friday or Jack Black in teenage masquerade trying to pull a teacher.
D1 ARTS E1-12 Hollywood Tries Reality Genre On Friday, New Line Cinema will release a movie called "The Real Cancún," the first attempt by a Hollywood studio to transfer the reality television phenomenon to the movie screen.
Nora Roberts, a novelist who is one of the biggest stars in the genre, said Friday that the controversy should force renewed attention to the issue of intellectual theft with ramifications well beyond the world of romance writers.
President Obama, who has made the rounds of most of the late-night shows in the past, will return to the most-watched of the genre on Tuesday when he visits "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" on NBC for the fourth time since taking office.
One name that is conspicuously absent from the contents page of the "Best American Travel Writing" collection is that of Mike Tidwell, whose new book, IN THE MOUNTAINS OF HEAVEN: Tales of Adventure on Six Continents (Lyons Press, $24.95), confirms him as a master of that humble but difficult genre, the Sunday newspaper travel article.
