Chromatic Modernity - Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s

List of contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Color Standards and the Industrial Field of Film
2. Advertising, Fashion, and Color
3. Synthetic Dreams: Expanded Spaces of Cinema
4. Color in the Art and Avant-Garde of the 1920s
5. Chromatic Hybridity
6. Color and the Coming of Sound
7. Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sarah Street is professor of film at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900–55 (2012) and Deborah Kerr (2018), among other works.

Joshua Yumibe is associate professor and director of the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is the author of Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (2012) and coauthor of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (2015).

Summary

Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history of how the use of color in film led the way in creating a chromatically vibrant culture. Focusing on the final decade of silent film, Chromatic Modernity portrays the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan exchange, collaboration, and experimentation.

Additional text

This is a remarkable book. Highly recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Street, Sarah Yumibe Street, Street Sarah, Joshua Yumibe
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780231179829
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17982-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series; Film Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Film & Video, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Film; Popular Culture