Neo-Baroque film
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) used in film studies to describe certain films, television shows[1] 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.[2][3]
Notable films associated with Neo-Baroque cinema
[edit]- La dolce vita (1960)[4]
- 8 1/2 (1963)[5]
- Amarcord (1973)[6]
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)[7]
- Star Wars (1977)[8]
- The Evil Dead series (1981-1992)[9]
- Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)[10]
- Jurassic Park (1993)[11]
- Contact (1997)[12]
- Event Horizon (1997)[13]
- Moulin Rouge (2001)[14]
- Avatar (2009)[15]
Notable directors associated with Neo-Baroque cinema
[edit]- Peter Greenaway[16][17]
- Sally Potter[18]
- Raúl Ruiz[19][20]
- Claire Denis[21][22]
- Steven Spielberg[23]
- Sam Raimi[24]
- Pedro Almodovar[25]
- Baz Luhrmann[26]
- James Cameron[27]
- Luc Besson[28]
- Federico Fellini[29][30]
See also
[edit]
- Baroque
- Experimental film
- Oneiric (film theory)
- Vulgar auteurism
- Philosophy of film
- Postmodernist film
- Surrealist film
Further reading
[edit]- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Angela Ndalianis, "Television and the Neo-Baroque," The Contemporary Television Serial (2005): 83-101
- ^ Schraa, Michael (2007). "Figure, Ground and Framing in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema". Double Dialogues. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Sean Cubitt, "The supernatural in neo-Baroque Hollywood," Film Theory & Contemporary Hollywood Movies (2009): 47-65
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ Baroque Perceptual Reigmes - Senses of Cinema
- ^ Baroque Perceptual Reigmes - Senses of Cinema
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ Neo-Baroque articulations in new digital media: a critical perspective|by Kyra|Medium
- ^ Cristina Degli-Esposti Reinert, "Neo-Baroque Imaging in Peter Greenaway's Cinema," Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema (2008): 51-78
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ Cristina Degli-Esposti, "Sally Potter's Orlando and the Neo-Baroque Scopic Regime," Cinema Journal (1996): 75-93
- ^ Goddard, Michael (2004). "Towards a Perverse Neo-Baroque Cinematic Aesthetic: Raúl Ruiz's Poetics of Cinema". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ Walton, Saige (2013). "Enfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis' Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation". Screening the Past. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ Enfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis’ Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation|Screening the Past
- ^ Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past
- ^ Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ Neo-Baroque articulations in new digital media: a critical perspective|by Kyra|Medium
- ^ Three French neo-baroque directors in: the films of Luc Besson - Manchester Hive
- ^ The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
- ^ Federico Fellini's Intervista or the Neo-Baroque Creativity of the Analysand on Screen on JSTOR