Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment
By: Angela Ndalianis
Series: Media in transition
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Motion pictures; Mass media; Mass media -- Technological innovations; Cinematography -- Special effects; Civilization, Baroque; Video games
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.