Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color

Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color
ISBN-10
1444332392
ISBN-13
9781444332391
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2010-04-26
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Author
Richard Misek

Description

Chromatic Cinema Color permeates film and its history, but study of its contribution to film has so far been fragmentary. Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving images, from hand painting in early skirt dance films to current trends in digital color manipulation. In this richly illustrated study, Richard Misek offers both a history and a theory of screen color. He argues that cinematic color emerged from, defined itself in response to, and has evolved in symbiosis with black and white. Exploring the technological, cultural, economic, and artistic factors that have defined this evolving symbiosis, Misek provides an in-depth yet accessible account of color’s spread through, and ultimate effacement of, black-and-white cinema.

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