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Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking around the world during the mid-century era when color came to dominate global film production. As Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, Fujicolor and other film stocks became broadly available and affordable, national film industries increasingly converted to color, transforming the look and feel of global cinema.
List of contents
Introduction
SARAH STREET AND JOSHUA YUMIBE Mapping the Laboratory: Technicolor across Asia and Europe:
KIRSTY SINCLAIR DOOTSON “Keeping Your Enemies Closer”: Strategies of Knowledge Transfer at the East German Filmfabrik Wolfen:
JOSEPHINE DIECKE “We’re Not in Sweden Anymore”: Technicolor’s Brief Venture in Swedish Cinema:
KAMALIKA SANYAL “Risk versus Conformity”: Soviet Color Film, 1956–1982:
PHILIP CAVENDISH Eastman Color in 1960s India:
RANJANI MA ZUMDAR Coloring the Coastline: Italian Beachside Comedies and the Color Film Transition:
ELENA GIPPONI Technological and Athletic Splendor: The Formation of Color in the Socialist Sports Film in China:
LINDA C. ZHANG The Chinese Film Collection at the University of South Carolina:
HEATHER HECKMAN, LAURA MAJOR, AND LYDIA PAPPAS The Lights That Raised Up a Storm: Neon and the Nikkatsu Action Color Film, 1957–1963:
WILLIAM CARROLL Color as a Foreign Accent: Brazilian Films and Film Laboratories in the 1950s:
RAFAEL DE LUNA FREIRE British Film Criticism and Global Color:
SARAH STREET All about Landscape: The Shift to Color in Australian Film at Midcentury:
KATHRYN MILLARD AND STEFAN SOLOMON Moving Monochromatics: Paul Sharits and Color Field Aesthetics in a Global Context:
GREGORY ZINMAN On Vivid Colors and Afrotropes in African and Diasporic Cinemas:
JOSHUA YUMIBE Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
About the author
SARAH STREET is a professor of film and Foundation Chair of Drama at the University of Bristol in the UK. She has written and co-edited several books, including
Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-1955 and
Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s, co-authored with Joshua Yumibe.
JOSHUA YUMIBE is a professor of film studies and English at Michigan State University. He has written, edited, and co-edited several books, including
Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (Rutgers University Press, 2012) and
Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema, w co-authored with Giovanna Fossati, Tom Gunning, and Jonathon Rosen.
