Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment /

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 imb...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ndalianis, Angela, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Series:Media in transition.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Mass media.
Mass media > Technological innovations.
Cinematography > Special effects.
Civilization, Baroque.
Video games.
Video Games
Médias.
Médias > Innovations.
Cinéma > Effets spéciaux.
Civilisation baroque.
Jeux vidéo.
mass media.
video games.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Film.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art
ARTS/Art History/General
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History
Films.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Polycentrism and seriality : (Neo- )Baroque narrative formations
  • Intertextuality, labyrinths, and the (Neo- )Baroque
  • Hypertexts, mappings, and colonized spaces
  • Virtuosity, special-effects spectacles, and architectures of the senses
  • Special-effects magic and the spiritual presence of the technological.

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