This mixing of show business genres is characteristic of music hall, whose performers mocked authority, upper-class snobbery and the way a hint of sex could turn grown men into smirking children.
The mix of genres became characteristic of Pascu's work in music: "When I was writing records, I figured that, should someone, say, be playing my record at a party, they would have several kinds to choose from, and they would not grow bored.
It captures a whole genre's characteristic, unsettling but exciting inversion of the order of things.
The movie musical has not so much died as migrated, taking with it the genre's characteristic mixture of sophistication and wholesomeness.
Though the stop-motion technique has been around for over a century and has been largely replaced by computer graphics for special effects in film, the genre's characteristic look and charm still holds great appeal.
Allan Kaprow, (born Aug. 23, 1927, Atlantic City, N.J., U.S. died April 5, 2006, Encinitas, Calif.), American performance artist, theoretician, and instructor who invented the name Happening for his performances and who helped define the genre's characteristics.
August 23, 1927 Atlantic City, New Jersey April 5, 2006 Encinitas, California Allan Kaprow, (born Aug. 23, 1927, Atlantic City, N.J., U.S. died April 5, 2006, Encinitas, Calif.), American performance artist, theoretician, and instructor who invented the name Happening for his performances and who helped define the genre's characteristics.
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This substantial section of more recent work, subtitled Poems 1988-2010, is remarkably cohesive, seamlessly moving between two of the writer's most characteristic genres, ekphrastic poetry and nature poetry.
Grounded in the two most characteristic genres of the 1950s, the western and the science-fiction film, "High Noon" and "Body Snatchers" have both been read as political allegories of the McCarthy era, though their precise meanings remain intriguingly elusive.
