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Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B, also called modern R&B, is a popular music genre that emerged in the United States in the 1980s from rhythm and blues, soul, funk, and disco.
Contemporary Syrian literature
Contemporary Syrian literature is the body of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays written in Syria or by Syrian writers since the mid-twentieth century, shaped by authoritarianism, war, and exile.
Contemporary Syrian novel
The contemporary Syrian novel is Arabic-language long-form fiction by Syrian authors, pioneered by Hanna Mina and Abdal-Salam al-Ujayli and shaped since 2011 by war and displacement.
Contempt (film)
Contempt (Le Mépris), Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 French-Italian drama adapted from Alberto Moravia, stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Fritz Lang as a marriage collapses during a Capri Odyssey production.
Content creation
Content creation (内容创作) is making media for public consumption, especially online digital media. Covers its history from user-created content to the creator economy, platform incentives, creator earnings, algorithmic labor, and AI copyright rules.
Contes et nouvelles en vers
Contes et nouvelles en vers (Tales and Novels in Verse) is a collection of licentious verse tales by Jean de La Fontaine, published in four parts from 1665 to 1674.
Continental knitting
Continental knitting, also called German knitting or picking, holds the working yarn in the left hand while the right needle picks each stitch. Faster than English throwing for most knitters, harder to purl, dominant in continental Europe.
Continuations de Perceval
The Continuations de Perceval are four Old French verse poems of about 1200 to 1230 that carry Chrétien de Troyes's unfinished Perceval, ou le Conte du Graal forward to a conclusion.
Continuity (fiction)
Continuity (fiction): internal consistency of events, characters, and details across a narrative and sequels; distinct from canon, tracked by script supervisors and story bibles, breached by goofs, repaired by retcons and reboots.
Continuum (John Mayer album)
Continuum is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter John Mayer, released in 2006 and winner of the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Continuum (TV series)
Continuum is a Canadian sci-fi police drama created by Simon Barry, aired 2012–2015, in which future cop Kiera Cameron and the terrorist group Liber8 are stranded in 2012 Vancouver from corporate-ruled 2077.
Contortion
Contortion is a circus performance art of extreme flexibility, combining backbends, splits, and balance poses. Known in Mongolia as uran nugaralt, it entered the Western circus in the 18th century; MRI studies measure spinal mobility of 238 degrees.
Contos Gauchescos
Contos Gauchescos is a 1912 short-story collection by the Brazilian writer João Simões Lopes Neto, considered a central work of the literature of Rio Grande do Sul.
Contra (album)
Contra is the second studio album by the American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released on XL Recordings in January 2010; it topped the Billboard charts with 124,000 first-week US sales.
Contraband (1940 film)
Contraband (US title Blackout) is a 1940 British comedy spy-thriller, the second Powell–Pressburger collaboration, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson in blackout London; considered the first British fiction film about World War II.
Contraband (2012 film)
Contraband is a 2012 American action thriller directed by Baltasar Kormákur, in which Mark Wahlberg plays a reformed smuggler taking one last job from Panama to New Orleans.
Contraband (Velvet Revolver album)
Contraband is Velvet Revolver's 2004 RCA debut album by Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Dave Kushner, and Scott Weiland; it debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with 256,000 first-week copies and features the singles Slither, Fall to Pieces, and Dirty Little Thing.
Contracted (film)
Contracted (2013) is an American body horror film written and directed by Eric England, starring Najarra Townsend as Samantha, distributed by IFC Midnight, followed by the 2015 sequel Contracted: Phase II.
Contracted: Phase II
Contracted: Phase II (2015) is a body-horror sequel to Contracted, directed by Josh Forbes, written by Craig Walendziak, starring Matt Mercer as infected Riley; IFC Midnight release, 42% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Contralto
Contralto: the lowest of the three standard female classical voice types, also called alto in choral use. Defined by a D4–E4 tessitural center, dark timbre, passaggi near C4 and F4; rare in opera, with lyric, dramatic, and character Fach subtypes.
ContraPoints
ContraPoints is the YouTube channel of Natalie Wynn, an American trans woman video essayist. Founded 2016; about 1.7 million subscribers; Peabody (2023) and Streamy (2020) awards; theatrical leftist video essays countering alt-right content.
Contrapposto
Contrapposto (Italian, "counterpose"): classical standing pose with weight on one leg, hips and shoulders tilting oppositely in an S-curve. Invented in 5th-century BCE Greece (Doryphoros), revived by Donatello and Michelangelo in the Renaissance.
Contrapposto (novel)
Contrapposto is a 2026 novel by Dave Eggers that follows artist Robert Dibb and his lifelong friend Olympia Argyros from childhood in Indiana into their sixties.
Control (2007 film)
Control (2007) is Anton Corbijn's black-and-white debut biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, based on Deborah Curtis's memoir Touching from a Distance, starring Sam Riley; it opened Cannes Directors' Fortnight and won BAFTA's Carl Foreman Award.
Control (2023 film)
Control (2023) is a British action thriller directed and written by Gene Fallaize, starring Kevin Spacey in a voice-only role as a man who remotely hijacks Home Secretary Stella Simmons's self-driving car; released December 15, 2023, distinct from other films titled Control.
Control (Janet Jackson album)
Control is the third studio album by American singer Janet Jackson, released in 1986. Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, it became her breakthrough.
Control (upcoming film)
Control is an upcoming Studiocanal action thriller directed by Robert Schwentke, starring James McAvoy and Julianne Moore, adapted from the podcast Shipworm about a doctor implanted with a device and obeying a mysterious voice.
Control Freak (film)
Control Freak (2025) is a Hulu body-horror film written and directed by Shal Ngo, based on his short Control; Kelly Marie Tran plays a motivational speaker infected by a parasitic demon, Sanshi. Distinct from Barry Williams' 2025 thriller of the same name.
Control Z
Control Z is a Mexican teen drama series created by Miguel García Moreno, Carlos Quintanilla Sakar, and Adriana Pelusi for Netflix, about a hacker exposing students' secrets at El Colegio Nacional. It ran three seasons, 24 episodes, from May 22, 2020 to July 6, 2022, starring Ana Valeria Becerril.
Controll
Controll (कंट्रोल) is a 2025 Hindi cyber-crime thriller directed by Safdar Abbas, starring Thakur Anoop Singh, Priya Anand, and Rohit Roy; released 10 October 2025, 116 minutes, U/A, inspired by Tamil film Irumbu Thirai.