Cinema and Colour

The Saturated Image

Paul Coates (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2010
BFI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84457-314-1 (ISBN)

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A study of the use of colour in film, and of the ways in which colour has been theorised, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema. Paul Coates unpacks the use of colour in films ranging including 'All that Heaven Allows', 'Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle', 'Three Colours: Red' and 'The Lives of Others'.

Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symbolic meanings that colour bears in different cultures, and engages with a range of critical approaches to filmic colour, building on the work of such theorists as Sergei Eisenstein, Rudolf Arnheim and Stanley Cavell.

Coates also provides close analyses of films by directors such as Antonioni, Bergman, Godard, Hitchcock, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Sirk, Kieslowski, Tarkovsky, Von Trier and Zhang Yimou. Coates' focus is on films that deliberately exploit the rich multiplicity of cultural meanings and associations ascribed to colour, including All That Heaven Allows, Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle, The Double Life of Véronique, The Flight of the Red Balloon, Red Desert, Schindler's List, Silent Light, Solaris, The Three Colours Trilogy and The Wizard of Oz.

PAUL COATES is a Paul Coates, Professor in the Film Studies Department of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the author of The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon's Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism and the Image of Horror (1991) and Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy (2003).

A: History and Theory.- 1. Introduction: Theorizing Colour and Ambivalence.- 2. The Moment of Colour: Colour, Modernism and Abstraction.- B: Monochrome and the Primaries.- 3. Colour and/as Monochrome.- 4. On the Dialectics of Filmic Colour (in general) and Red (in particular).- 5. Declensions Along One Side of the Colour Circle: From Yellow to Green to Blue.- C: Tour/Detour d'Amerique.- 6. Melos, Drama, Melodrama: From Demy to Sirk to Antonioni.- 7. Colour and/as Fantasy: The Rainbow to the Jewel.- D: Between Monochrome and Colour: Suffering and The Unrepresentable.- 8. Colour and Suffering.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.11.2010
Zusatzinfo	184 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Fotografieren / Filmen
ISBN-10	1-84457-314-1 / 1844573141
ISBN-13	978-1-84457-314-1 / 9781844573141
Zustand	Neuware