Tracing the logic of media history, from the baroque tothe neo-baroque, from magic lanterns and automata to film andcomputer games.

Angela Ndalianis situates today's film, computer games, comic books, and theme-park attractions within an aesthetic-historical context and uses the baroque as a

A leading young Italian semiologist scrutinizes today's cultural phenomena and finds the prevailing taste to be "neo-baroque"--characterized by an appetite for

Baroque New Worlds traces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins a

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an internatio