[ecrea] new book: Chromatic Cinema: a history of screen color

Chromatic Cinema: a history of screen color
By Richard Misek, University of Bristol
 
 
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.
 
·       Offers both a history and a theory
of screen color in the first full-length academic study of this subject
ever published
 
·       Provides an in-depth yet accessible
account of color's spread through and ultimate effacement of
black-and-white cinema, exploring the technological, cultural, economic,
and artistic factors that have defined this evolving symbiosis
 
·       Engages with film studies, art
history, visual culture and technology studies in a truly
interdisciplinary manner
 
Includes 65 full-color illustrations of films ranging from Expressionist
animation to Hollywood and Bollywood musicals, from the US ’indie' boom
to Hong Kong cinema, and recent comic-book films.
 
 
"This remarkable manuscript opens new vistas on what cinema is, how
it works, and what it can mean, with a deep historical perspective and an
unobtrusive but effective deployment of film theory. It is bound to be a
major intervention in an exciting and growing field of film studies, and
a significant contribution to technology studies." 
Sean Cubitt, author of The Cinema Effect
 
"Drawing on optical theory, art history, and film technology,
Richard Misek rejects conventional distinctions between color and
black-and-white, arguing instead for a 'chromatic cinema' which sees
color everywhere.    Original, thought-provoking, and sure
to be controversial." 
Richard Koszarski, Rutgers University
 
"In this important and surprising study of cinema’s most central,
seemingly simple, and notorious opposition--black and white versus
color--Misek upsets the usual categories for understanding the
development of cinema as technology and aesthetic practice. Chromatic
Cinema should change the way we understand the so-called evolution of
film style as the triumph of realism." 
Brian Price, Oklahoma State University
 
 
Publication date: May 3, 2010-05-04
 
Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA. 227pp. 
ISBN 978-1-4443-3239-1 (hardcover: alk. paper)

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