{"product_id":"neobaroque-aesthetics-and-contemporary-entertainment-media-in-transition-9780262640619","title":"Neo-baroque Aesthetics And Contemporary Entertainment (Media in Transition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeo-baroque Aesthetics And Contemporary Entertainment (Media in Transition)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ndalianis, Angela. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780262640619.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 todays 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.\nThe neo-baroque aesthetics that Ndalianis analyzes are not, she argues, a case of art history repeating or imitating itself; these forms have emerged as a result of recent technological and economic transformations. The neo-baroque forms combine sight and sound and text in ways that parallel such seventeenth-century baroque forms as magic lanterns, automata, painting, sculpture, and theater but use new technology to express the concerns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. 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 Terminator 2:3D, the book demonstrates the logic of media histories. Ndalianis focuses on the complex interrelationships among entertainment media and presents a rigorous cross-genre, cross-historical analysis of media aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983490117685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262640619","price":225.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262640619_f6fd995f-8c95-4c60-82ef-258975cf0756.jpg?v=1778888596","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/neobaroque-aesthetics-and-contemporary-entertainment-media-in-transition-9780262640619","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}