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Color and Empathy: Essays on Two Aspects of Film (Film Culture in Transition)
Christine Brinckmann
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Description for Color and Empathy: Essays on Two Aspects of Film (Film Culture in Transition)
Hardcover. A close reading of the colour aesthetics in film, tracing the historical development of film styles in relation to colour.[-] Series: Film Culture in Transition. Num Pages: 270 pages, 96 black and white; 22 full color. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses. Employing a bottom-up approach as a basis for theoretical exploration, each of the essays concentrates on a particular film or a number of related films to come to terms with a set of issues. These include the differences between black-and-white and color works, the emergence of bold chromatic schemes in the 1950s, experimental aesthetics of color negative stock, idiosyncratic uses of colour, idiosyncratic uses of motor mimicry, genre-specific reactions ... Read more
The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses. Employing a bottom-up approach as a basis for theoretical exploration, each of the essays concentrates on a particular film or a number of related films to come to terms with a set of issues. These include the differences between black-and-white and color works, the emergence of bold chromatic schemes in the 1950s, experimental aesthetics of color negative stock, idiosyncratic uses of colour, idiosyncratic uses of motor mimicry, genre-specific reactions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Condition
New
Series
Film Culture in Transition
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089646569
SKU
V9789089646569
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About Christine Brinckmann
Christine N. Brinckmannis professor emerita of the Department of Cinema Studies at the University of Zürich. She has published widely on the poetics of film, on documentary and experimental work, on narrative, and on viewer response.
Reviews for Color and Empathy: Essays on Two Aspects of Film (Film Culture in Transition)
"An extraordinary collection of essays addressing core issues of how we experience moving pictures. Brinckmann brilliantly discusses what watching films is all about: our cognitive, emotional and sensual engagement with the images on the screen" - Prof. dr. Frank Kessler, Utrecht University "I highly recommend this text for undergraduate and graduate courses, and because the translation from ... Read more