Cinema and colour : the saturated image /

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Author / Creator:	Coates, Paul, 1953-
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Description:	178 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Colors in motion pictures. Color motion pictures. Color motion pictures. Colors in motion pictures.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8302490

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ISBN:	9781844573158 184457315X 9781844573141 (pbk.) 1844573141 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema. Paul Coates unpacks the use of color in a diverse range of films such as All that Heaven Allows, The Wizard of Oz, Three Colours and The Lives of Others, and many more"--

Table of Contents:

COLOUR SYSTEMS: ON THE DIALECTICS OF FILMIC COLOUR
A. History and Theory
1. Introduction: Theorizing Colour and Ambivalence
2. The Moment of Colour: Colour, Modernism and Abstraction (Red Desert, Deux ou trios choses que je sais d'elle)
B. Monochrome and the Primaries
3. Colour and/as Monochrome (The Lives of Others, Mother, Solaris, Zentropa)
4. On the Dialectics of Filmic Colour (in general) and Red (in particular) (Three Colours: Red, Red Desert, Cries and Whispers, The Double Life of VÃ©ronique)
5. Colour declensions: from Yellow to Green to Blue (Curse of the Golden Flower, The Double Life of VÃ©ronique, Elvira Madigan, Marnie, Le MÃ©pris, Pan's Labyrinth, Three Colours: Blue)
6. Melos, Drama, Melodrama: From Godard to Sirk to AntonioniâÇ (Une femme est une femme, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Singin' in the Rain, All that Heaven Allows, The Oberwald Mystery)
7. Colour and/as Fantasy: from the Rainbow to the Jewel (The Wizard of Oz, Vertigo)
D. Between Monochrome and Colour: Suffering and The Unrepresentable
8. The Colour of Suffering (Fotoamator, Night and Fog, Schindler's List, Hear My Cry)

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