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Description for Colour
Paperback. Accessible and inventive in its approach, Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries. Series Editor(s): O'Rawe, Des. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations, colour|Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: APFD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
Colour remains one of the few uncharted territories in writing about film style. Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries. Through detailed explorations of films such as Three Colours: White and The Green Ray, this study offers a way of approaching, interpreting, and appreciating cinematic colour. The book also considers film’s ability to place colour in a shifting relationship with all other points of style including camerawork, editing, performance, music, and lighting. Accessible and inventive in its approach, Colour invites the reader to see films differently, providing a fresh ... Read more
Colour remains one of the few uncharted territories in writing about film style. Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries. Through detailed explorations of films such as Three Colours: White and The Green Ray, this study offers a way of approaching, interpreting, and appreciating cinematic colour. The book also considers film’s ability to place colour in a shifting relationship with all other points of style including camerawork, editing, performance, music, and lighting. Accessible and inventive in its approach, Colour invites the reader to see films differently, providing a fresh ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719076435
SKU
V9780719076435
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Ref
99-15
About Steven Peacock
Steven Peacock is senior lecturer in Film at The University of Hertfordshire -- .
Reviews for Colour
‘This book is a major contribution to the scholarship of film art. Each chapter develops and illuminates the range, significance and usage of colour in our understanding and experience of the particular films chosen and, in doing so, heightens our alertness to colour’s crucial significance for film aesthetics in general. The author’s extraordinary prose is a guide and companion in ... Read more