- Columbia University Press
Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s
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- Sarah Street
- Columbia University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780231179829
- 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches
- 1.6 pounds
- Performing Arts > Film - History & Criticism
- English
Book Description
Focusing on the final decade of silent film, Street and Yumibe portray the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan exchange, collaboration, and experimentation in and around cinema. Chromatic Modernity explores contemporary debates over color's artistic, scientific, philosophical, and educational significance. It examines a wide range of European and American films, including Opus 1 (1921), L'Inhumaine (1923), Die Nibelungen (1924), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Lodger (1927), Napol�on (1927), and Dracula (1932). A comprehensive, comparative study that situates film among developments in art, color science, and industry, Chromatic Modernity reveals the role of color cinema in forging new ways of looking at and experiencing the modern world.
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