ABSTRACT
This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the screen, but also the ways in which developments in cinematographic technologies transformed the aesthetics of color and the nature of film archiving and restoration. Color and the Moving Image includes new writing on key directors whose work is already associated with color—such as Hitchcock, Jarman and Sirk—as well as others whose use of color has not yet been explored in such detail—including Eric Rohmer and the Coen Brothers. This volume is an excellent resource for a variety of film studies courses and the global film archiving community at large.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part one|68 pages
History
chapter two|14 pages
Technicolor-Multicolorsennett- Color
chapter four|9 pages
Glorious Agfacolor, Breathtaking Totalvision and Monophonic Sound
chapter six|12 pages
The Color of Prometheus
part two|45 pages
Theory
chapter nine|10 pages
The Hues of Memory, the Shades of Experience
chapter ten|10 pages
From Psycho to Pleasantville
part three|71 pages
Aesthetics
chapter twelve|12 pages
Color Unlimited: Amateur Color Cinema in the 1930s
chapter fourteen|10 pages
The Cameraman and the Glamour-Puss
chapter sixteen|10 pages
Color and Containment
part four|46 pages
Archive