The colour fantastic : chromatic worlds of silent cinema / Giovanna Fossati, Victoria Jackson, Bregt Lameris, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Sarah Street, Joshua Yumibe.
Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled 'Disorderly Order': Colours in Silent Film, scholarly and archival interest in colour as a crucial aspect of film form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In the spirit of the workshop, this ant...
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Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Prologue. Questions of Colours: Taking Sides (Peter Delpeut); NONFICTION AND AMATEUR CINEMA; 1. Fireworks and Carnivals. Applied and Natural Colours in Italian Home Movies (Elena Gipponi); 2. Liminal Perceptions. Intermediality and the Exhibition of Nonfiction Film (Liz Watkins); 3. Rough Seas. The Blue Waters of Early Nonfiction Film (Jennifer Peterson); NATURAL-COLOUR PROCESSES: THEORY AND PRACTICE; 4. 'Taking the color out of color'. Two-colour Technicolor, The Black Pirate, and Blackened Dyes (John Belton)
- 5. Why Additive? Problems of Colour and Epistemological Networks in Early (Film) Technology (Benoît Turquety)6. Ziegfeldized Slapstick, Useful Comedy. Mack Sennett's Slapstick Comedies under the Influence of Natural Colour (Hilde D'haeyere); 7. Kinemacolor and Kodak. The Enterprise of Colour (Frank Gray); INTERMEDIALITY AND ADVERTISING; 8. Rainbow Ravine. Colour and Animated Advertising in Times Square (Kirsten Moana Thompson); 9. Kodachrome's Hope. The Making and Promotion of McCall Colour Fashion News (Natalie Snoyman)
- 10. Chromatic Objects. Colour Advertising and French Avant-garde Films of the 1920s (Federico Pierotti)ARCHIVING AND RESTORATION: EARLY DEBATES AND CURRENT PRACTICES; 11. La Ligue du Noir et Blanc. French Debates on Natural Colour Film and Art Cinema 1926-1927 (Bregt Lameris); 12. A Material-Based Approach to the Digitization of Early Film Colours (Barbara Flueckiger, Claudy Op den Kamp, David Pfluger); Archival Panels (Edited Transcripts); Author's Biographies; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.