Chromatic cinema
Subtitle: a history of screen color
By: by Richard Misek.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781444332391
Subjects: Color cinematography -- History; Colors in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Film color. Coloration in early cinema, 1895-1927; title: The rise of technicolor, 1915-1935; title: Chromatic cold war : black-and-white and color in opposition; title: "Technicolor is natural color" : color and realism, 1935-1958; title: Chromatic thaw : Hollywood's transition to color, 1950-1967; title: Surface color. Color in European film, 1936-1967; title: Chromatic ambivalence: art cinema's transition to color; title: "Painting with light" : cinema's imaginary art history; title: Unmotivated chromatic hybridity; title: Monochrome purgatory : absent color in the Soviet bloc, 1966-1975; title: Absent color. "Time present and time past" : black-and-white as technological relic, 1965-1983; title: Black-and-white flashbacks : codifying temporal rebirth; title: Postmodernism and black-and-white film, 1967-2007; title: Nostalgia and pastiche; title: Optical color. Cinema's Newtonian optics; title: White light : Hollywood's invisible ideology; title: Darkness visible : from natural light to "neo-noir", 1968-1983; title: Cinematography and color filtration, 1977-1997; title: Case study : seeing red in Psycho; title: Digital color. Crossing the chromatic wall in wings of desire; title: An archaeology of digital intermediate, 1989-2000; title: Digital color aesthetics, 2000-2008; title: Conclusion : painting by numbers?