Cinema and colour [electronic resource] : the saturated image / Paul Coates.

"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, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coates, Paul, 1953-
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Variant Title:
Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Vertigo and yellow
  • Guillermo del Toro and the dialectics of yellow and green
  • Grief and green: Solaris, I lvira Madigan
  • Natural camouflage: Joseph Losey's The Boy With Green Hair
  • Green unseen: the poetics of absence in The Flight of the Red Ballon
  • From yellow to green (via black): The Double Life of Veronique
  • From yellow to blue: three Colours: Blue
  • The desert and the beach: Deleuze, Antonioni, Zhang Ke Jia
  • The painter's primaries and totality: le Mepris
  • le Mepris 2: the triumph of blue
  • Blue angel, blue devil: Goya in Bordeaux
  • Trapped in blue: la Religieuse
  • C. TOUR/OF FOUR D'AMRIQUE
  • 6. Melos, Drama, Melodrama: From Demy to Sirk to Antonioni
  • Introduction
  • Singin' and dancin'? in the rain: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Singin' in the Rain
  • Coupling and uncoupling colours: Une femme est une femme
  • Totally? Tenderly? Tragically?: An American in Paris, Le Mepris and Moulin Rouge (with a postscript on The Golden Coach)
  • A note on melodrama and modernism
  • Melodrama, realism and All That Heaven Allows
  • Modernist melodrama? The Oberwald Mystery