Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment Hardback
by Angela Ndalianis
Part of the Media in Transition series
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Tracing the logic of media history, from the baroque to the neo-baroque, from magic lanterns and automata to film and computer games.The artists of the seventeenth-century baroque period used spectacle to delight and astonish; contemporary entertainment media, according to Angela Ndalianis, are imbued with a neo-baroque aesthetic that is similarly spectacular.
In Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment, she situates today's film, computer games, comic books, and theme-park attractions within an aesthetic-historical context and uses the baroque as a framework to enrich our understanding of contemporary entertainment media.The neo-baroque aesthetics that Ndalianis analyzes are not, she argues, a case of art history repeating or imitating itself; these forms have emerged as a result of recent technological and economic transformations.
The neo-baroque forms combine sight and sound and text in ways that parallel such seventeenth-century baroque forms as magic lanterns, automata, painting, sculpture, and theater but use new technology to express the concerns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
Moving smoothly from century to century, comparing ceiling paintings to the computer game Doom, a Spiderman theme park adventure to the baroque version of multimedia known as the Bel Composto, and a Medici wedding to T erminator 2:3D, the book demonstrates the logic of media histories.
Ndalianis focuses on the complex interrelationships among entertainment media and presents a rigorous cross-genre, cross-historical analysis of media aesthetics.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages, 54 illus.
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:27/02/2004
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- ISBN:9780262140843
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages, 54 illus.
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:27/02/2004
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- ISBN:9780262140843
