Color and the Moving Image
History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive
Edited by Simon Brown, Sarah Street and Liz Watkins
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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.
About the authors:
Anna Batistova works as the head of audiovisual collections at National Film Archive in Prague (Czech Republic), and an assistant professor at Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic). She does research in history of screening technologies and teaches cinema technology, early cinema, Czech cinema, and audiovisual archiving.
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