Global film color : The monopack revolution at midcentury / edited by Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Street, Sarah, editor.

Yumibe, Joshua, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color cinematography--History--20th century.

Color cinematography.

Color motion pictures--History--20th century.

Color motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Mapping the laboratory : technicolor across Asia and Europe

"Keeping your enemies closer" : strategies of knowledge transfer at the East German Filmfabrik Wolfen

We're not in sweden anymore" : Technicolor's brief, brief venture in Swedish cinema

"Risk versus conformity" : Soviet color film, 1956-1982

Eastman Color in 1960s India

Coloring the coastline : Italian beachside comedies and the color film transition

Technological and athletic splendor : the formation of color in the socialist sports film in China

The Chinese film collection at the University of South Carolina

The lights that raised up a storm : neon and the Nikkatsu Action Color Film (1957-1963)

Color as a foreign accent : Brazilian films and film laboratories in the 1950s

British film criticism and global color

All about landscape : the shift to color in Australian film at midcentury

Moving monochromatics : Paul Sharits and color field aesthetics

On vivid colors and Afrotropes in African and diasporic cinemas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-9788-3683-X

OCLC:

1451807480