Global Film Color

The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury

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Edited by Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Great Britain

Keywords

history of cinema, color, global, cinematography

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 258 pages
6 ½ x 9 ¾ inches (16.5 x 25 cm)

ISBN

978-1-9788368-0-8

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Book Presentation:
Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Japan, and Russia, and across Europe and Africa. Most previous accounts of color film have concentrated on early 20th century color processes and Technicolor. Far less is known about the introduction and application of color technologies in the period from the mid-1940s to the 1980s, when photochemical, “monopack” color stocks came to dominate global film markets. As Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, Fujicolor and other film stocks became broadly available and affordable, national film industries increasingly converted to color, transforming the look and feel of global cinema. Covering a broad range of perspectives, the chapters explore themes such as transnational flows, knowledge exchange and transfer, the cyclical and asymmetrical circulation of technology in a global context, as well as the accompanying transformation of color film aesthetics in the postwar decades.

About the authors:
SARAH STREET is a professor of film and Foundation Chair of Drama at the University of Bristol in the UK. She has written and co-edited several books, including Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-1955 and Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s, co-authored with Joshua Yumibe.

JOSHUA YUMIBE is a professor of film studies and English at Michigan State University. He has written, edited, and co-edited several books, including Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (Rutgers University Press, 2012) and Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema, w co-authored with Giovanna Fossati, Tom Gunning, and Jonathon Rosen.

Press Reviews:
"Global Film Color brings together a truly international group of contributors working with sources in multiple languages to offer readers a vivid spectrum of fascinating insights about uses of color in world cinema."
— Matthew Solomon

"An important work that opens up new territory in global color, with particular strengths in Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian, and Indian film and media. New archival materials, case studies, and distribution and exhibition histories offer an exciting new direction to color studies."

— Kirsten Moana Thompson

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