Color and Empathy: Essays on Two Aspects of Film (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789089646569)

The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses. Employing a bottom-up approach as a basis for theoretical exploration, each of the essays concentrates on a particular film or a number of related films to come to terms with a set of issues. These include the differences between black-and-white and color works, the emergence of bold chromatic schemes in the 1950s, experimental aesthetics of color negative stock, idiosyncratic uses of colour, idiosyncratic uses of motor mimicry, genre-specific reactions to the documentary, and empathetic reactions to animals and to architecture in film. A close reading of the colour aesthetics in film, tracing the historical development of film styles in relation to colour.

Author: Christine Brinckmann
ISBN-10: 9089646566
ISBN-13: 9789089646569
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2014
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d