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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52821143 Title: Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment Author: Angela Ndalianis Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004. ISBN/ISSN: 0262140845 9780262140843 OCLC:52821143

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Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment

Author:	Angela Ndalianis
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Series:	Media in transition
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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 Read more...
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Angela Ndalianis Find more information about:
ISBN:	0262140845 9780262140843
OCLC Number:	52821143
Description:	xiv, 323 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title:	Media in transition
Responsibility:	Angela Ndalianis

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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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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