Neo-Baroque film is a type of film theory that (while the term "neo-baroque" is borrowed from the writings of semiologist Umberto Eco and philosopher Gilles Deleuze) is used in film studies to describe certain films, television showsAngela Ndalianis, "Television and the Neo-Baroque," The Contemporary Television Serial (2005): 83-101 and Hollywood blockbusters characterised by the excessively ornate, carnivalesque fragmentation of the film frame and/or narrative, sometimes to the point of spatial and/or narrative incoherence.Sean Cubitt, "The supernatural in neo-Baroque Hollywood," Film Theory & Contemporary Hollywood Movies (2009): 47-65
Notable films associated with Neo-Baroque cinema La dolce vita (1960)The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT 8 1/2 (1963)The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT Amarcord (1973)The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past Star Wars (1977)The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT The Evil Dead series (1981-1992)Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT Jurassic Park (1993)The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT Contact (1997)Baroque Perceptual Regimes - Senses of Cinema Event Horizon (1997)Baroque Perceptual Regimes - Senses of Cinema Moulin Rouge (2001)The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT Avatar (2009)Neo-Baroque articulations in new digital media: a critical perspective|by Kyra|Medium
Notable directors associated with Neo-Baroque cinema Peter GreenawayCristina Degli-Esposti Reinert, "Neo-Baroque Imaging in Peter Greenaway's Cinema," Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema (2008): 51-78The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT Sally PotterCristina Degli-Esposti, "Sally Potter's Orlando and the Neo-Baroque Scopic Regime," Cinema Journal (1996): 75-93 Raúl RuizThe Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT Claire DenisEnfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis’ Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation|Screening the Past Steven SpielbergNeo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past Sam RaimiNeo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past Pedro AlmodovarThe Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT Baz LuhrmannThe Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT James CameronNeo-Baroque articulations in new digital media: a critical perspective|by Kyra|Medium Luc BessonThree French neo-baroque directors in: the films of Luc Besson - Manchester Hive Federico FelliniThe Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MITFederico Fellini's Intervista or the Neo-Baroque Creativity of the Analysand on Screen on JSTOR
See also
Baroque Experimental film Oneiric (film theory) Vulgar auteurism Philosophy of film Postmodernist film Surrealist film
Further reading Omar Calabrese (1992). Neo-Baroque: A Sign of the Times, tr. Charles Lambert (Princeton University Press). Sean Cubitt (2004). The Cinema Effect (MIT Press), pp. 217–244. Gilles Deleuze (1988). The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, tr. Tom Conley (University of Minnesota Press, 1993). Umberto Eco (1962). The Open Work, tr. Anna Cancogni (Harvard University Press, 1989). Monika Kaup (2012). Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film (University of Virginia Press). Walter Moser, Angela Ndalianis and Peter Krieger, eds. (2016). Neo-Baroques: From Latin America to the Hollywood Blockbuster (Brill/Rodop). Angela Ndalianis (2004). Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment (MIT Press). Emmanuel Plasseraud (2007). Cinéma et imaginaire baroque (Septentrion). Saige Walton (2016). Cinema's Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement (Amsterdam University Press). Peter Wollen (1993). "Baroque and Neo-Baroque in the Age of Spectacle," Point of Contact 3 (3), pp. 9–21.
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