Neo-Baroque film explained

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]
• (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

• 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.

Notes and References

1. Angela Ndalianis, "Television and the Neo-Baroque," The Contemporary Television Serial (2005): 83-101
2. News: Schraa. Michael. Figure, Ground and Framing in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema . 1 June 2019 . Double Dialogues . 2007.
3. Sean Cubitt, "The supernatural in neo-Baroque Hollywood," Film Theory & Contemporary Hollywood Movies (2009): 47-65
4. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
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7. http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-17-reviews/neo-baroque-aesthetics-and-contemporary-entertainment/ Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past
8. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
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11. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
12. https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2000/conference-special-effects-special-affects/baroque/ Baroque Perceptual Reigmes - Senses of Cinema
13. https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2000/conference-special-effects-special-affects/baroque/ Baroque Perceptual Reigmes - Senses of Cinema
14. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
15. https://medium.com/@kagathos/neo-baroque-articulations-in-new-digital-media-a-critical-reading-83327ef21834 Neo-Baroque articulations in new digital media: a critical perspective|by Kyra|Medium
16. Cristina Degli-Esposti Reinert, "Neo-Baroque Imaging in Peter Greenaway's Cinema," Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema (2008): 51-78
17. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
18. Cristina Degli-Esposti, "Sally Potter's Orlando and the Neo-Baroque Scopic Regime," Cinema Journal (1996): 75-93
19. News: Goddard. Michael. Towards a Perverse Neo-Baroque Cinematic Aesthetic: Raúl Ruiz's Poetics of Cinema . 1 June 2019 . Senses of Cinema . 2004.
20. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
21. News: Walton. Saige. Enfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis' Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation . 4 June 2019 . Screening the Past . 2013.
22. http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-37-aesthetic-issues-in-world-cinema/enfolding-surfaces-spaces-and-materials-claire-denis%e2%80%99-neo-baroque-textures-of-sensation/ Enfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis’ Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation|Screening the Past
23. http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-17-reviews/neo-baroque-aesthetics-and-contemporary-entertainment/ Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past
24. http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-17-reviews/neo-baroque-aesthetics-and-contemporary-entertainment/ Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment|Screening the Past
25. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
26. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
27. https://medium.com/@kagathos/neo-baroque-articulations-in-new-digital-media-a-critical-reading-83327ef21834 Neo-Baroque articulations in new digital media: a critical perspective|by Kyra|Medium
28. https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526141811/9781526141811.00007.xml Three French neo-baroque directors in: the films of Luc Besson - Manchester Hive
29. http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/neo_intro.html The Baroque and Neo-Baroque - MIT
30. https://www.jstor.org/stable/479361 Federico Fellini's Intervista or the Neo-Baroque Creativity of the Analysand on Screen on JSTOR