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Richard Misek - Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color - 9781444332391 - V9781444332391
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Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color

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Description for Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color Hardback. Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historicaloverview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meaningsof color in moving images, from hand painting in early skirt dancefilms to current trends in digital color manipulation. Num Pages: 240 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: AJRD; APF; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
Chromatic Cinema

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 evolved in symbiosis with black and white. Exploring the technological, cultural, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444332391
SKU
V9781444332391
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Ref
99-50

About Richard Misek
Richard Misek is a film-maker and Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He has been published widely in film journals, and his short films have been shown at festivals including Cannes, Raindance, and Clermont-Ferrand, and broadcast on BBC2 and Channel 4.

Reviews for Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color
“Chromatic Cinema provides a much-needed technological history of machines and techniques for producing moving images in color, as well as a cultural history of color films.”  (BRIAN R. JACOBSON, Technology and Culture, July 2012) “An invigorating critical intervention into the history, theory and aesthetic analysis of colour in the cinema.”  (JENNIFER M. BARKER, Screen, August 2012) ... Read more

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