Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask] v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu A surprising and original application of theories of new media art. DIGITAL BAROQUE: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds Timothy Murray University of Minnesota Press | 336 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-3401-9 | hardcover | $75.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-3402-6 | paperback| $25.00 Electronic Mediations Series, volume 26 Making an exquisite and unexpected connection between the old and the new, Digital Baroque analyzes the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts. Examining a wide range of art forms, Murray reflects on the rhetorical, emotive, and social forces inherent in the screen arts' dialogue with early modern concepts. "In the flood of recent publications on electronic and digital art, nothing can compare to Digital Baroque-a work of tremendous originality, conceived and written with great clarity, commitment, and wit."-D. N. Rodowick For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/murray_digital.html For more information on the Electronic Mediations Series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/electronic.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: <http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html>http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask] v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from UMP: Media: http://www.upress.umn.edu/mediaalert.html Public: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html Follow UMP on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/UMinnPress ...and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Minneapolis-MN/University-of-Minnesota-Press/40070783448 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu