Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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?

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.