Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment write by Angela Ndalianis. This book was released on 2005. Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Angela Ndalianis situates today's film, computer games, comic books, and theme-park attractions within an aesthetic-historical context and uses the baroque as a model that helps us better understand contemporary entertainment media.
Traversing the Boundaries
Traversing the Boundaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traversing the Boundaries write by Angela Ndalianis. This book was released on 1998. Traversing the Boundaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Neo-Baroques
Neo-Baroques - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neo-Baroques write by . This book was released on 2016-10-18. Neo-Baroques available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Baroque is back in contemporary culture. The ten essays authored by international scholars, and three interventions by artists, examine the return of the baroque as Neo-Baroque through interdisciplinary perspectives. Understanding the Neo-Baroque as transcultural (between different cultures) and transhistorical (between historical moments) the contributors to this volume offer diverse perspectives that suggest the slipperiness of the Neo-Baroque may best be served by the term ‘Neo-Baroques’. Case studies analysed reflect this plurality and include: the productions of Belgian theatre company Abattoir Fermé; Claire Denis’ French New Extremist film Trouble Every Day; the novel Lujuria tropical by exiled El Salvadorian Quijada Urias; the science fiction blockbuster spectacles The Matrix and eXistenZ; and the spectacular grandeur of early Hollywood movie palaces and the contemporary Las Vegas Strip. Contributors: Jens Baumgarten, Marjan Colletti, Bolívar Echeverría, Rita Eder, Hugh Hazelton, Monika Kaup, Peter Krieger, Patrick Mahon, Walter Moser, Angela Ndalianis, Richard Reddaway, Karel Vanhaesebrouck, Saige Walton.
Neo-Baroque
Neo-Baroque - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neo-Baroque write by Omar Calabrese. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Neo-Baroque available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A leading young Italian semiologist scrutinizes today's cultural phenomena and finds the prevailing taste to be "neo-baroque"--characterized by an appetite for virtuosity, frantic rhythms, instability, poly-dimensionality, and change. Omar Calabrese locates a "sign of the times" in an amazing variety of literary, philosophical, artistic, musical, and architectural forms, from the Venice Biennale through the "new science" to television series, video games, and "zapping" with the remote control device from channel to channel! Calabrese admits that he begins the book with a refusal to distinguish between "Donald Duck and Dante." Avoiding hierarchies or ghettos among works, he takes his readers on a fast-paced expedition through contemporary culture that closes with an elegant essay on evaluation and classical form. According to Calabrese, the enormous quantity of narrative now being produced has led to a new situation: everything has already been said, and everything has already been written. The only way of avoiding saturation has been to turn to a poetics of repetition. The author shows that pleasure in texts is now produced by tiny variations, and a certain kind of citation from other works has taken on a central importance that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. In describing this development, and others shared by both avant-garde and mass media, he makes us aware of the rapid shrinkage in the once ample space between "highbrow" and "lowbrow." Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Theater of Truth
The Theater of Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theater of Truth write by William Egginton. This book was released on 2009-12-17. The Theater of Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation of a cultural strategy produced as a response to a specific problem of thought that has beset Europe and the colonial world since early modernity. This problem, in its simplest philosophical form, concerns the paradoxical relation between appearances and what they represent. Egginton explores expressions of this problem in the art and literature of the Hispanic Baroques, new and old. He shows how the strategies of these two Baroques emerged in the political and social world of the Spanish Empire, and how they continue to be deployed in the cultural politics of the present. Further, he offers a unified theory for the relation between the two Baroques and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values.
