Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive

by Simon Brown (Editor), Sarah Street, Liz Watkins

This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the screen, but also the ways in which developments in cinematographic technologies transformed the aesthetics of color and the nature of film archiving and restoration. Color and the Moving Image includes new writing on key directors whose work is already associated with color―such as Hitchcock, Jarman and Sirk―as well as others whose use of color has not yet been explored in such detail―including Eric Rohmer and the Coen Brothers. This volume is an excellent resource for a variety of film studies courses and the global film archiving community at large.

286 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2012

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Associate Professor of Film and Television at Kingston University.