{"product_id":"neo-baroques-from-latin-america-to-the-hollywood-blockbuster-9789004324343","title":"Neo-Baroques: From Latin America to the Hollywood Blockbuster","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Introduction—Walter Moser    Part One: Neo-Baroques  Part One Introduction—Walter Moser   1. Meditations on the Baroque—Bolívar Echeverría    2. Reconsidering Metatheatricality: Towards a Baroque Understanding of Postdramatic Theatre—Karel Vanhaesebrouck    3. Fabricating Film: The Neo-Baroque Folds of Claire Denis—Saige Walton  4. Baroque Affinities : Wölfflin, Visconti, the Baroque and the Films of Glauber Rocha—Rita Eder    5. Artist’s Essay: The Neo-Baroque and Complexity—Richard Reddaway    Part Two: Religion  Part Two Introduction—Angela Ndalianis   6. Afro-Caribbean Belief Systems and the Neo-Baroque Novel: The Duel of Faiths in Alejo Carpentier’s El reino de este mundo and Ludic Voodoo in Alfonso Quijada Urías’s Lujuria tropical —Hugh Hazelton  7. Temporal and Local Transfers: The Neo-Baroque Between Politics, Religion and Entertainment —Jens Baumgarten   8. The Religious Shines Through: Religious Remnants and Resurgences in 90s Cinema —Walter Moser   9. Artist’s Essay: Towers, Shipwrecks, and Neo-Baroque Allegories—Patrick Mahon    Part Three: Cities  Part Three Introduction—Peter Krieger   10. Symbolic Dimensions and Cultural Functions of the Neo-Baroque Balustrade in Contemporary Mexico City: An Alternative Learning from Las Vegas—Peter Krieger  11. Mexico City’s Dissonant Modernity and the Marketplace Baroque: Salvador Novo’s Nueva grandeza mexicana and Bernardo de Balbuena’s La grandeza mexicana—Monika Kaup   12. Baroque Theatricality and Scripted Spaces: From Movie Palace to Las Vegas Casinos—Angela Ndalianis    13. Artist’s Essay: Post-Digital Neo-Baroque: Reinterpreting Baroque Reality in Contemporary Architectural Design—Marjan Colletti    AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210689896791,"sku":"9789004324343","price":120.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neo-baroques-from-latin-america-to-the-hollywood-blockbuster-9789004324343","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}