Chromatic Cinema

摘要

Chromatic Cinema provides a much-needed technological history of machines and techniques for producing moving images in color, as well as a cultural history of color films. Surveying coloring methods from frame-by-frame hand painting in the 1890s to today's digital postproduction processes, Richard Misek productively challenges two basic ideas of film history: the often-debated notion that technological development has pushed cinema toward greater degrees of realism, and the common assumption that black-and-white and color are mutually exclusive categories of film aesthetics.