Color and empathy : essays on two aspects of film / Christine N. Brinckmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinckmann, Christine, 1937- author.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colors in motion pictures--History.

Colors in motion pictures.

Color cinematography--History.

Color cinematography.

Color motion pictures--History.

Color motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses. Employing a bottom-up approach as a basis for theoretical exploration, each of the essays concentrates on a particular film or a number of related films to come to terms with a set of issues. These include the differences between black-and-white and color works, the emergence of bold chromatic schemes in the 1950s, experimental aesthetics of color negative stock, idiosyncratic uses of colour, idiosyncratic uses of motor mimicry, genre-specific reactions to the documentary, and empathetic reactions to animals and to architecture in film.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Preface / Brinckman, Christine N.

Cinematic Color as Likeness and as Artifact

Chords of Color

The Tension of Colors in Colorized Silent Films

Structural Film, Structuring Color: Jenny Okun's Still Life

Desert Fury: A Film Noir in Color

The Work of the Camera: Beau travail

Empathy with the Animal

Motor Mimicry in Hitchcock

Abstraction and Empathy in the Early German Avant-garde

The Role of Empathy in Documentary Film: A Case Study

Genre Conflict in Tracey Emin's Top Spot

Viewer Empathy and Mosaic Structure in Frederick Wiseman's Primate

Casta Diva: An Empathetic Reading

Publication Data

Index of Films

Index of Subjects

Film Culture in Transition

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jun 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-003-69284-2

1-04-080099-8

90-485-2326-5

9781003692843

OCLC:

1076460481