Color it true : impressions of cinema / Murray Pomerance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomerance, Murray, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colors in motion pictures.

Color motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor or symbol, or else part of a broader signifying system. Color it True, Murray Pomerance's latest meditation on cinema, has the author embed himself in various ways of thinking about color; not ways of framing it as a production trick or a symbolic language but ways of wondering how the color effect onscreen can work in the act of viewing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Of Blue

A Blue Parade: Irene

Honestly, Blue: Les parapluies de Cherbourg [The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]

Blue Narcissus: Anna Karenina (2012)

Blue Distance: The Thief of Bagdad

A Blue Provocation: Death in Venice

A Civil Blue: Shane

A Blue Tease: Psycho: I

Airless Blue: Le grand bleu [The Big Blue]

2. Of Pink

Marie et Marie: Marie Antoinette

Pink Again: Vertigo: I

A Blush: The Pink Panther

Drink Me: The Nutty Professor

Fitting Pink: Arizona Dream

Pink Fire: The Passenger [Professione: Reporter]

Pink World: Written on the Wind: I (1956)

The Pink Line: Fight Club

3. Of White

White Redemption: Fahrenheit 451

Weisse: Marathon Man

Snow White: Akira Kurosawa's Dreams: I

Smashing!: The Bed Sitting Room

Grave White: Forbidden Planet

The Whitest Blood Around: Alien

The Prince: The Godfather: Part II

The White Butterfly: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence [Senjo no Meri Kurisumasu]

White Presence: The Band Wagon

4. Of Purple

Disney Purple: Fantasia, Aladdin: I

The Purple Blade: The Fall of the Roman Empire

Grinning Purple: Batman

Verbal Purple: The Purple Rose of Cairo

Purple Fingers: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Purple Tensions: Magnificent Obsession

5. Of Orange

Mad Orange: Alice Through the Looking Glass

Modest Orange: Aladdin: II

An Orange Meow: The Long Goodbye

Orange for the Adventurer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

An Orange Shield: Vertigo: II

Temptation Orange: Written on the Wind: II

Death of a Fruit: The Godfather

Burnt Orange: Jungle Book

6. Of Gray

Historical Gray: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Lord of the Rings; The Hobbit

Gray Style: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: I

Inert Gray: Donnie Darko

Gray Proportion: 2001: A Space Odyssey: I

The Gray Vigil: A Ghost Story

Screen Gray: Arrival the Gray Gulag: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Schematic Gray: Red Desert [II deserto rosso]

7. Of Yellow

Paved Yellow: The Wizard of Oz: I

Celestial Yellow: Little Buddha

Yellow and Tender: The Fugitive

Yellow Crust: Watchmen

Mother's Yellow: Diary of a Mad Housewife

Reflective Yellow: To Catch a Thief, The Dreamers

Yellow Risk: Mamie: I

8. Of Black

A Tale of Horror and Imagination: The Fly

Black Faith: The Silver Chalice

Seeing Past Black: The Lone Ranger (1949-57); The Lone Ranger (1956); The Lone Ranger (2013)

Fate: Treasure Island

A Black Stream: Grease

The Black Father: Star Wars

Black Search: Psycho: II

Jocko: In the Heat of the Night

9. Of Brown

Continuous Brown: Lawrence of Arabia

Tyranny in Beige: Interiors

The Brown Frontier: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

A Brown River: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

A Brown Chagrin: L'heure d'ete [Summer Hours]

Democratic Brown: North by Northwest

Brown Filth: The Magic Christian

10. Of Mauve

Sleight of Hand: Meet Me in St. Louis

Mauve in Rotation: The King and I

Natural Mauve: Amadeus

Hot Mauve: Blow-Up: I

Retreat: Splendor in the Grass: I

11. Of Red

Explode: Splendor in the Grass: II

Stench: The Ten Commandments

Fire Apple: Rebel Without a Cause

The Red Clue: Cries & Whispers

Red River: The Talented Mr. Ripley

Choose This Red: The Red Shoes

Rational Red: 2001: A Space Odyssey: II

Macula: Mamie: II

12. Of Green

The Green and Final Sea: Bonnie and Clyde

The Green Fire: Green Lantern

The Water Mill's Green: Akira Kurosawa's Dreams: II

Spectacular Green: The Wizard of Oz: II

To Swim and Not to Swim: Leave Her to Heaven; Call Me by Your Name Green Boy: The Boy with Green Hair; Bigger Than Life

Green Redemption: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: II

Green of Dreams: How Green Was My Valley

Green Is the Wind: Blow-Up: II.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pomerance, Murray. Color it true

ISBN:

9781501383113

1501383116

OCLC:

1252961107

Publisher Number:

99989982960