Chromatic cinema : a history of screen color /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Misek, Richard, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Wiley online library.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Film color. Coloration in early cinema, 1895-1927
  • The rise of technicolor, 1915-1935
  • Chromatic cold war : black-and-white and color in opposition
  • "Technicolor is natural color" : color and realism, 1935-1958
  • Chromatic thaw : Hollywood's transition to color, 1950-1967
  • Surface color. Color in European film, 1936-1967
  • Chromatic ambivalence: art cinema's transition to color
  • "Painting with light" : cinema's imaginary art history
  • Unmotivated chromatic hybridity
  • Monochrome purgatory : absent color in the Soviet bloc, 1966-1975
  • Absent color. "Time present and time past" : black-and-white as technological relic, 1965-1983
  • Black-and-white flashbacks : codifying temporal rebirth
  • Postmodernism and black-and-white film, 1967-2007
  • Nostalgia and pastiche
  • Optical color. Cinema's Newtonian optics
  • White light : Hollywood's invisible ideology
  • Darkness visible : from natural light to "neo-noir", 1968-1983
  • Cinematography and color filtration, 1977-1997
  • Case study : seeing red in Psycho
  • Digital color. Crossing the chromatic wall in wings of desire
  • An archaeology of digital intermediate, 1989-2000
  • Digital color aesthetics, 2000-2008
  • Conclusion : painting by numbers?