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“What’s so wonderful about Bramesco’s book, outside of a visually splendid layout that embraces the first word of that title with detailed color breakdowns of each palette, is how much it enhances the critical language of the average viewer.” —Brian Tallerico, Editor of RogerEbert.com Taking you on from the earliest feature films to today, Colors of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that color played in their success. The use of color is an essential part of film. It has the power to evoke powerful emotions, provide subtle psychological symbolism and act as a narrative device. Wes Anderson’s pastels and muted tones are aesthetically pleasing, but his careful use of color also acts as a shorthand for interpreting emotion. Moonlight(2016, dir. Barry Jenkins) cinematographer (James Laxton) and colorist (Alex Bickel) spent 100 hours fine-tuning the saturation and hues of the footage so that the use of color evolved in line with the growth of the protagonist through the film. And let’s not forget Schindler’s List (1993, dir. Steven Spielberg), in which a bold flash of red against an otherwise black-and-white film is used as a powerful symbol of life, survival and death. In Colors of Film, film critic Charles Bramesco introduces an element of cinema that is often overlooked, yet has been used in extraordinary ways. Using infographic color palettes, and stills from the movies, this is a lively and fresh approach to film for cinema-goers and color lovers alike. He also explores in fascinating detail how the development of technologies have shaped the course of modern cinema, from how the feud between Kodak and Fujifilm shaped the color palettes of the 20th Century's greatest filmakers, to how the advent of computer technology is creating a digital wonderland for modern directors in which anything is possible. Filled with sparkling insights and fascinating accounts from the history of cinema, Colors of Film is an indispensable guide to one of the most important visual elements in the medium of film.
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Author: Charles Bramesco
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.771kg
ISBN: 9780711279384
ISBN 10: 0711279381
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 14 March 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1 OVER THE RAINBOW Post-facto Colorization A Trip to the Moon, Méliès Intolerance, Griffith The Wizard of Oz, Fleming Fantasia, Disney Black Narcissus, Powell & Pressburger The River, Renoir Singin’ in the Rain, Donen & Kelly All That Heaven Allows, Sirk The Searchers, Ford Vertigo, Hitchcock Lawrence of Arabia, Lean 2 UNBOUND IMAGINATIONS Kodak and Fujifilm The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Demy Red Desert, Antonioni Color Me Blood Red, Lewis 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick Cries and Whispers, Bergman Touki Bouki, Mambéty Bobby, Kapoor Don’t Look Now, Roeg Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder Jeanne Dielman …, Akerman God Told Me To, Cohen Suspiria, Argento Ran, Kurosawa 3 MAKING A STATEMENT Color Theory Blue Velvet, Lynch Dick Tracy, Beatty Blue, Jarman Schindler’s List, Spielberg Three Colors trilogy, Kieślowski Chungking Express, Wong Seven, Fincher Belly, Williams Peppermint Candy, Lee The Virgin Suicides, Coppola But I’m a Cheerleader, Babbit Songs from the Second Floor, Andersson Traffic, Soderbergh Amélie, Jeunet Spirited Away, Miyazaki 4 DIGITAL WONDERLANDS The Color TV The Aviator, Scorsese Saw II, Bousman Speed Racer, Wachowski & Wachowski Enter the Void, Noé Amer, Cattet & Forzani Tron: Legacy, Kosinski The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson Mad Max: Fury Road, Miller La La Land, Chazelle Black Panther, Coogler Lovers Rock, McQueen Further Reading Picture Credits & Acknowledgments Index
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You'll never take color for granted again after perusing Charles Bramesco's Colors of Film, which explores the pal ettes used in 50 iconic films through four eras of cinema. This book provides a fascinating object lesson in how visual information wields power. --Bookpage
Author Information
Charles Bramesco is a film and television critic living in Brooklyn. In addition to the Guardian, his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Little White Lies, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, Nylon, Vulture, Frieze, The A.V. Club, Indiewire, The Dissolve, Vox, and Pitchfork. He is the author of Vampire Movies (Little White Lies for William Collins, 2019).
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