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 evolvedin 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.Richard Misek is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published articles in journals including Rouge, The New Review of Film and Television, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Film-Philosophy. He is also a screen practitioner; his short films have been shown at festivals including Cannes, Raindance, and Clermont-Ferrand, and broadcast on BBC2, Channel 4, and MTV.
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3239-1
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 06/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés