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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| Hōputu: | Pukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2004]
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| Rangatū: | Media in transition.
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| Whakarāpopototanga: | "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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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | xiv, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Rārangi puna kōrero: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0262140845 9780262140843 |