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Moving color : early film, mass culture, modernism / Joshua Yumibe.
LIBRA TR853 .Y86 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yumibe, Joshua.
- Series:
- Techniques of the moving image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Color cinematography--History.
- Color cinematography.
- Colorization of motion pictures--History.
- Colorization of motion pictures.
- Silent films--History and criticism.
- Silent films.
- Colors in motion pictures.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 192 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Color was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz. Thomas Edison, for example, projected films in color at his first public screening in New York City on April 23, 1896. These first colors of early cinema were not photographic; they were applied manually through a variety of laborious processes-most commonly by the hand-coloring and stenciling of prints frame by frame, and the tinting and toning of films in vats of chemical dyes. The results were remarkably beautiful.
- Moving Color is the first book-length study of the beginnings of color cinema. Looking backward, Joshua Yumibe traces the legacy of color history from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the cinema of the early twentieth century. Looking forward, he explores the implications of this genealogy on experimental and contemporary digital cinemas in which many colors have become, once again, vividly unhinged from photographic reality. Throughout this history, Moving Color revolves around questions pertaining to the sensuousness of color: how color moves us in the cinema-visually, emotionally, and physically. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Paolo Cherchi Usai
- Introduction
- The colors of modernity
- Hand coloring and the intermediality of the cinema
- Transformation and uplift: stenciling, tinting, and toning
- Color cinema, from gentility to abstraction
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813552965
- 0813552966
- 9780813552972
- 0813552974
- 9780813552989
- 0813552982
- OCLC:
- 748674660
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