Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive [Hardcover]

This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the screen, but also the ways in which developments in cinematographic technologies transformed the aesthetics of color and the nature of film archiving and restoration. Color and the Moving Image includes new writing on key directors whose work is already associated with colorsuch as Hitchcock, Jarman and Sirkas well as others whose use of color has not yet been explored in such detailincluding Eric Rohmer and the Coen Brothers. This volume is an excellent resource for a variety of film studies courses and the global film archiving community at large.

Introduction: Simon Brown, Sarah Street, Liz Watkins I. HISTORY. Chapter 1. Simon Brown, The Brighton School and the Quest for Natural Color  Redux. Chapter 2. Hilde Dhaeyere, Out of the Blue: Color Inserts in Mack Sennetts Comedy Shorts of the Late Twenties. Chapter 3. Charles OBrien, Technicolor Song Sequences: Music and Color in King of Jazz (1930). Chapter 4. Anna Batistov?, Glorious Agfacolor, Breathtaking Totalvision and&Changing Color Process in Czechoslovak Cinema at the Beginning of the Scope Boom. Chapter 5. Sarah Street, Glorious Adventures with Prizma. Chapter 6. Andrew Robert Johnston, The Color of Prometheus: Thomas Wilfred's Lumia and the Projection of Transcendence. II. THEORY. Chapter 7. Tom Gunning, Where Do Colors Go at Night? Chapter 8. Rosalind Galt, Brash&Indecent&Libertine : Aesthetics and Film Theory Versus Derek Jarmans QulS¢