Chromatic cinema : a history of screen color

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Film Color. Coloration in Early Cinema, 1895–1927 -- The Rise of Technicolor, 1915–35 -- Chromatic Cold War: Black-and-White and Color in Opposition -- “Technicolor Is Natural Color”: Color and Realism, 1935–58 -- Chromatic Thaw: Hollywood’s Transition to Color, 1950–67 -- Surface Color. Color in European Film, 1936–67 -- Chromatic Ambivalence: Art Cinema’s Transition to Color -- “Painting with Light”: Cinema’s Imaginary Art History -- Unmotivated Chromatic Hybridity -- Monochrome Purgatory: Absent Color in the Soviet Bloc, 1966–75 -- Absent Color. Black-and-White as Technological Relic, 1965–83 -- Black-and-White Flashbacks: Codifying Temporal Rebirth -- Black-and-White Films, 1967–2007 -- Nostalgia and Pastiche -- Optical Color. Cinema’s Newtonian Optics -- White Light: Hollywood’s Invisible Ideology -- Darkness Visible: From Natural Light to “Neo-Noir”, 1968–83 -- Cinematography and Color Filtration, 1977–97 -- Case Study: Seeing Red in Psycho -- Digital Color. Crossing the Chromatic Wall in Wings of Desire -- An Archaeology of Digital Intermediate, 1989–2000 -- Digital Color Aesthetics, 2000–9 -- Conclusion: Painting by Numbers?

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