Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment (Media in Transition)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262140845 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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 hist
Entertainment media continue to undergo dramatic transformations. Yet Angela Ndalianis refreshingly reminds us how much films like Jurassic Park or Alien, and computer games such as Phantasmagoria and Tomb Raider, owe to the labyrinthine compositions and machinic illusions of seventeenth-century ceiling painting. It is an erudite call to rethink the contribution that the Baroque has made to western thought and art practice -- in particular to reflect on the way that contemporary technologie
Angela Ndalianis is Associate Professor and Head of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
"The transitional era of neo-baroque poetics" according to Philippe M.. Ndalianis is one of the most interesting writer when it comes to contemporary popular culture and contemporary popular cinema in particular. While I may not agree with everything she says in this book – I am torn between neo-post-classicist and post-modern/neo-baroque arguments when it comes to analyzing the for