{"product_id":"9781501383083","title":"Color It True Impressions of Cinema","description":"\u003ch1\u003eColor It True\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eImpressions of Cinema\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMurray Pomerance\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and\/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor or symbol, or else part of a broader signifying system. Murray Pomerance's latest meditation on cinema has the author embed himself in various ways of thinking about color; not ways of framing it as a production trick or a symbolic language but ways of wondering how the color effect onscreen can work in the act of viewing.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePomerance examines many issues, including acuity, dreaming, interrelationships, saturations, color contrasts, color and performance (color as a performance aid or even performance substitute), and more.  The lavender of the photographer's seamless in Antonioni's \u003ci\u003eBlow-Up \u003c\/i\u003etaken in itself as an explosion of color worked into form, and then considered both as part of the story and part of our experience. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 14 chapters of this book each discuss a single primary color as regards to our experience of cinema. After opening the idea of such an exploration in terms of the history of our apperception and the variation in our experience that color germinates, \u003ci\u003eColor it True \u003c\/i\u003etakes form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMurray Pomerance\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Canada and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the editor of the Techniques of the Moving Image series and the Horizons of Cinema series, and co-editor of the Screen Decades and Star Decades series. Pomerance is a widely published scholar; his works include\u003ci\u003e A Silence from Hitchcock \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), \u003ci\u003eUncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury 2022), \u003ci\u003eA Voyage with Hitchcock\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eThe Film Cheat \u003c\/i\u003e(2020), \u003ci\u003eVirtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), \u003ci\u003eA Dream of Hitchcock\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eCinema, If You Please\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), Moment of Action (2016), \u003ci\u003eAlfred Hitchcock's America\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), \u003ci\u003eThe Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience beyond Narrative and Theory \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), and two BFI Classics on \u003ci\u003eMarnie \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Knew Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29 June 2023\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501383083\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e360\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.96\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369533309068,"sku":"9781501383083","price":36.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_7004837e-1d06-44c9-a80a-d63011728b73.jpg?v=1783879492","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781501383083","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}