Moving smoothly from century to century, comparing ceiling paintings to the computer game Doom, a Spiderman themepark adventure to the baroque cersion of multimedia known as the Bel Composto, and a Medicic wedding to Terminator 2: 3D, this book demonstrates the logic of media histories. Ndalianis focuses on the complex interrelationships among entertainment media and presents a rigorouse cross-genre, cross-historical analysis of media aesthetics. 

Black and white illustrations.