Color, The Film Reader

by Angela Dalle Vacche

• ISBN13: 9780415324427
• ISBN10: 0415324424
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-08-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From successful and well published editors, 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 all students starting any film studies course.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Brian Price, General Introduction
PART ONE: COLOR TECHNOLOGY AND VISUAL STYLE	11	(40)
Introduction	11	(40)
1 Steve Neale, Technicolor	13	(11)
2 Natalie M. Kalmus, Color Consciousness	24	(6)
3 J.P. Telotte, Minor Hazards: Disney and the Color Adventure	30	(10)
4 Dudley Andrew, The Post-War Struggle for Colour	40	(11)
PART TWO: COLOR THEORY	51	(52)
Introduction	51	(52)
5 Rudolf Arnheim, Remarks on Color Film	53	(4)
6 André Bazin, A Bergsonian Film: The Picasso Mystery	57	(6)
7 David Batchelor, Chromophobia	63	(13)
8 Brian Price, Color, the Formless, and Cinematic Eros	76	(12)
9 Trond Lundemo, The Colors of Haptic Space: Black, Blue and White in Moving Images	88	(15)
PART THREE: THE FILMMAKER AS COLOR THEORIST	103	(26)
Introduction	103	(2)
10 Sergei Eisenstein, On Colour	105	(13)
11 Nagisa Oshima, Banishing Green	118	(3)
12 Eric Rohmer, Reflections on Color	121	(2)
13 Eric Rohmer, Of Taste and Colors	123	(3)
14 Stan Brakhage, Painting Film	126	(3)
PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES	129	(73)
Introduction	129	(2)
15 Richard Allen, Hitchcock's Color Designs	131	(14)
16 Mary Beth Haralovich, All That Heaven Allows: Color, Narrative Space, and Melodrama	145	(9)
17 Scott Higgins, Demonstrating Three-Strip Tech n icolor: Becky Sharp	154	(7)
18 Marshall Deutelbaum, Costuming and the Color System of Lease Her to Heaven	161	(9)
19 Edward Branigan, The Articulation of Color in a Filmic System: Deux ou trois chases que je sais d' elle	170	(13)
20 Angela Dalle Vacche, Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert: Painting as Ventriloquism and Color as Movement (Architecture and Painting)	183	(9)
21 Peter Wollen, Blue	192	(10)
Select Bibliography	202	(4)
Index	206