Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color

Abstract

List of Plates. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Film Color. Coloration in Early Cinema, 1895 1927. The Rise of Technicolor, 1915 35. Chromatic Cold War: Black-and-White and Color in Opposition. Technicolor Is Natural Color : Color andRealism, 1935 58. Chromatic Thaw: Hollywood s Transition to Color,1950 67. 2. Surface Color. Color in European Film, 1936 67. Chromatic Ambivalence: Art Cinema s Transition toColor. Painting with Light : Cinema s Imaginary ArtHistory. Unmotivated Chromatic Hybridity. Monochrome Purgatory: Absent Color in the Soviet Bloc,1966 75. 3. Absent Color. Black-and-White as Technological Relic, 1965 83. Black-and-White Flashbacks: Codifying Temporal Rebirth. Black-and-White Films, 1967 2007. Nostalgia and Pastiche. 4. Optical Color. Cinema s Newtonian Optics. White Light: Hollywood s Invisible Ideology. Darkness Visible: From Natural Light to Neo-Noir , 1968 83. Cinematography and Color Filtration, 1977 97. Case Study: Seeing Red in Psycho. 5. Digital Color. Crossing the Chromatic Wall in Wings of Desire. An Archaeology of Digital Intermediate, 1989 2000. Digital Color Aesthetics, 2000 9. Conclusion: Painting by Numbers? Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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