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

• 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

• 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

• Film portal

• 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.

References

1. Angela Ndalianis, "Television and the Neo-Baroque," The Contemporary Television Serial (2005): 83-101
2. Schraa, Michael (2007). "Figure, Ground and Framing in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema". Double Dialogues. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
3. Sean Cubitt, "The supernatural in neo-Baroque Hollywood," Film Theory & Contemporary Hollywood Movies (2009): 47-65
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16. Cristina Degli-Esposti Reinert, "Neo-Baroque Imaging in Peter Greenaway's Cinema," Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema (2008): 51-78
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18. Cristina Degli-Esposti, "Sally Potter's Orlando and the Neo-Baroque Scopic Regime," Cinema Journal (1996): 75-93
19. Goddard, Michael (2004). "Towards a Perverse Neo-Baroque Cinematic Aesthetic: Raúl Ruiz's Poetics of Cinema". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
20. The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
21. Walton, Saige (2013). "Enfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis' Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation". Screening the Past. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
22. Enfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis’ Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation|Screening the Past
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28. Three French neo-baroque directors in: the films of Luc Besson - Manchester Hive
29. The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
30. Federico Fellini's Intervista or the Neo-Baroque Creativity of the Analysand on Screen on JSTOR