Performing Arts History & Criticism
Cinema and Colour
The Saturated Image
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2010
- Category
- History & Criticism
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781844573158
- Publish Date
- Nov 2010
- List Price
- $115
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781844573141
- Publish Date
- Nov 2010
- List Price
- $35.5
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A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema. Paul Coates unpacks the use of color in a diverse range of films such as All that Heaven Allows, The Wizard of Oz, Three Colours and The Lives of Others, and many more.
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Contributor Notes
PAUL COATES is a Professor in the Film Studies Department of the University of Western Ontario, where he is also at present Acting Chair. He is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, Lucid dreams: the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski (ed.) (Flicks Books: Trowbridge, 1999), Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) and
The Red and the White: The Cinema of People's Poland (London: Wallflower, 2005).