Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment / Angela Ndalianis.

"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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Main Author: Ndalianis, Angela, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]
Series:Media in transition.
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