Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled ŸDisorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film,Œ scholarly and archival interest incolour as a crucial aspect of film form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In the spirit of the workshop, this anthology brings together international experts to explore a diverse range of themes that they hope will inspire the next twenty years of research on colour in silent film. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Prologue. Questions of Colours: Taking Sides (Peter Delpeut)
- NONFICTION AND AMATEUR CINEMA
- 1. Fireworks and Carnivals. Applied and Natural Colours in Italian Home Movies (Elena Gipponi)
- 2. Liminal Perceptions. Intermediality and the Exhibition of Nonfiction Film (Liz Watkins)
- 3. Rough Seas. The Blue Waters of Early Nonfiction Film (Jennifer Peterson)
- NATURAL-COLOUR PROCESSES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
- 4. 'Taking the color out of color'. Two-colour Technicolor, The Black Pirate, and Blackened Dyes (John Belton)
- 5. Why Additive? Problems of Colour and Epistemological Networks in Early (Film) Technology (Benoît Turquety)
- 6. Ziegfeldized Slapstick, Useful Comedy. Mack Sennett's Slapstick Comedies under the Influence of Natural Colour (Hilde D'haeyere)
- 7. Kinemacolor and Kodak. The Enterprise of Colour (Frank Gray)
- INTERMEDIALITY AND ADVERTISING
- 8. Rainbow Ravine. Colour and Animated Advertising in Times Square (Kirsten Moana Thompson)
- 9. Kodachrome's Hope. The Making and Promotion of McCall Colour Fashion News (Natalie Snoyman)
- 10. Chromatic Objects. Colour Advertising and French Avant-garde Films of the 1920s (Federico Pierotti)
- ARCHIVING AND RESTORATION: EARLY DEBATES AND CURRENT PRACTICES
- 11. La Ligue du Noir et Blanc. French Debates on Natural Colour Film and Art Cinema 1926-1927 (Bregt Lameris)
- 12. A Material-Based Approach to the Digitization of Early Film Colours (Barbara Flueckiger, Claudy Op den Kamp, David Pfluger)
- Archival Panels (Edited Transcripts)
- Author's Biographies
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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