TY - BOOK ID - 30662143 TI - Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment PY - 2004 SN - 0262280477 9780262280471 141756069X 9781417560691 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Cinematography KW - Motion pictures. KW - Mass media. KW - Mass media KW - Civilization, Baroque. KW - Video games. KW - Motion pictures KW - Civilization, Baroque KW - Video games KW - Film KW - Music, Dance, Drama & Film KW - Special effects. KW - Technological innovations. KW - Technological innovations KW - Special effects KW - Television games KW - Videogames KW - Baroque civilization KW - Mass communication KW - Media, Mass KW - Media, The KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Photography KW - Special effects (Cinematography) KW - History and criticism KW - Animated pictures KW - Electronic games KW - Communication KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Performing arts KW - Chronophotography KW - Trick cinematography KW - Computer games KW - Internet games KW - Games UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30662143 AB - "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."--Jacket. ER -