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Author:   Scott Higgins
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292716285

ISBN 10:   0292716281
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 November 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Technicolor 2. Forging a New Aesthetic: From Opera to Color Consciousness 3. A Feature-Length Demonstration: Becky Sharp 4. Unobtrusive Design: Introducing Three-Color to Conventional Production 5. Delicate Expansions: Designing in the Restrained Mode 6. Broadening the Palette: The Adventures of Robin Hood 7. A Fully Integrated Design: Light and Color in Gone with the Wind 8. Beyond the 1930s: The Legacies of Three-Color Aesthetics Appendix 1: Types of Prints Consulted and Variables in Color Reproduction Appendix 2: Chronological Filmography: Three-Color Features of the 1930s Appendix 3: Pantone Numbers for Color Names Notes Works Cited Index

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The blurb on the back of this book claims that 'Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow is the first scholarly history of Technicolor aesthetics and technology, as well as a thoroughgoing analysis of how color works in film. Scott Higgins draws on extensive primary research and close analysis of well-known movies ... to show how the Technicolor films of the 1930s forged enduring conventions for handling color in popular cinema.' It also claims that Higgins 'formulates a new vocabulary and method of analysis for capturing the often elusive functions and effects of color that, in turn, open up new avenues for the study of film form and lay a foundation for new work on color in cinema'. These claims are well founded. Indeed, if anything, they understate rather than overstate Higgins's achievements...Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow does indeed formulate 'a new vocabulary and a method of analysis' for capturing the effects and the functions of colour. It also provides a convincing account of the ways in which three-colour Technicolor was deployed in three distinct and successive 'modes' in the 1930s... he has produced an exemplary book. Steve Neale, Screen 2008, issue 49

""The blurb on the back of this book claims that 'Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow is the first scholarly history of Technicolor aesthetics and technology, as well as a thoroughgoing analysis of how color works in film. Scott Higgins draws on extensive primary research and close analysis of well-known movies ... to show how the Technicolor films of the 1930s forged enduring conventions for handling color in popular cinema.' It also claims that Higgins 'formulates a new vocabulary and method of analysis for capturing the often elusive functions and effects of color that, in turn, open up new avenues for the study of film form and lay a foundation for new work on color in cinema'. These claims are well founded. Indeed, if anything, they understate rather than overstate Higgins's achievements...Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow does indeed formulate 'a new vocabulary and a method of analysis' for capturing the effects and the functions of colour. It also provides a convincing account of the ways in which three-colour Technicolor was deployed in three distinct and successive 'modes' in the 1930s... he has produced an exemplary book."" Steve Neale, Screen 2008, issue 49

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Scott Higgins is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

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