Neo-Baroques

Walter Moser, Ph.D. (1968) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa. He is a renowned scholar who has published widely, including the edited anthology Résurgences baroques. Trajectoires d'un processus transculturel, 2001.Angela Ndalianis, Ph.D (1998) is Professor of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on entertainment histories. Her publications include Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment (2004), The Horror Sensorium (2012), and The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero (2008).Peter Krieger, Ph.D (1995) is Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His recent book is Transformaciones del paisaje urbano en México. Representación y registro visual, 2012.

• Book Introduction—Walter Moser Part One: Neo-BaroquesPart 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 Walton4. 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: ReligionPart 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 Hazelton7. 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: CitiesPart 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 Krieger11. 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