Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment:

"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 sit...

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1. Verfasser: Ndalianis, Angela 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] MIT Press 2004
Schriftenreihe:Media in transition
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Zusammenfassung:"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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 322 S. Ill.
ISBN:0262140845