Color, the film reader / edited by Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price.
Series: In focus : Routledge film readersPublisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2006Description: x, 214 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm001: 43266ISBN: 9780415324427 (pbk.) :; 9780415324434 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Color motion pictures | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.43 VAC LOC classification: PN1995 | .C622 2006Summary: With case studies on such figures as Hitchcock, Godard and Jarman, this anthology is devoted to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology. It is suitable for students starting a film studies course.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology.
Set out in thematic sections, the book addresses key issues in the field including:
the development of colour technology how visual stule was affected by the shift from black and white to colour colour in film theory and the writings of authors such as Bresson, Eisenstein and Oshima colour in the films of Godard, Hitchcock, Almodovar and many more.Including case studies too, this is the perfect introductory guide to a key element in film form and theory. A must for any student starting a film studies course.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-205) and index.
With case studies on such figures as Hitchcock, Godard and Jarman, this anthology is devoted to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology. It is suitable for students starting a film studies course.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction By Brian Price
- Part One Color Technology and Visual Style
- Introduction
- 1 Technicolor
- 2 Color Consciousness
- 3 Minor Hazards: Disney and the Color Adventure
- 4 The Post-War Struggle for Color
- Part Two Color Theory
- Introduction
- 5 Remarks on Color Film
- 6 A Bergsonian Film: The Picasso Mystery
- 7 From Chromophobia
- 8 Color, the Formless and Cinematic Eros
- 9 The Colours of Haptic Space: Black and White in Moving Images
- Part Three The Filmaker as Color Theorist
- Introduction
- 10 On Colour
- 11 Banishing Green
- 12 Reflections on Color
- 13 Of Taste and Colors
- 14 Painting Film
- Part Four Case Studie
- Introduction
- 15 Hitchcock's Color Designs
- 16 All that Heaven Allows: Color, Narrative Space, Melodrama
- 17 Demonstrating Three-Strip Technicolor: Becky Sharp
- 18 Costuming and the Color System: Leave Her to Heaven
- 19 The Articulation of Color in a Filmic System: Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle
- 20 Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert: Painting as Ventriloquism and Color as Movement (Architecture and Painting)
- 21 Blue
- Select Bibliography, compiled
- Index
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