Colours of Film

Name: Colours of Film
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SKU: 9780711270312
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The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes

By Charles Bramesco

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Summary

Colours of Film by Charles Bramesco explores the transformative power of colour in cinema, spanning various genres and eras. It examines how filmmakers have used colour to enhance storytelling and create emotional impact, offering insight into iconic scenes and their artistic relevance. The book serves as both a guide and a celebration of colour's role in shaping the cinematic experience.
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Format: Hardback

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You might enjoy this book if you have a passion for exploring how directors use colour to enhance storytelling in films. It delves into the artistic choices behind iconic movie scenes and offers a captivating view of cinematic colour design, perfect for anyone interested in film theory and visual culture.

Colours of Film

A lively and visual journey through cinema, told through the lens of colour.

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Taking you from the earliest feature films to today, Colours of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that colour played in their success.

The use of colour is an essential part of film. It has the power to evoke powerful emotions, provide subtle psychological symbolism, and act as a narrative device. Wes Anderson's pastels and muted tones are aesthetically pleasing, but his careful use of colour also acts as a shorthand for interpreting emotion.

Moonlight (2016, dir. Barry Jenkins) cinematographer James Laxton and colourist Alex Bickel spent 100 hours fine-tuning the saturation and hues of the footage so that the use of colour evolved in line with the growth of the protagonist through the film. And let's not forget Schindler's List (1993, dir. Steven Spielberg), in which a bold flash of red against an otherwise black-and-white film is used as a powerful symbol of life, survival, and death.

In Colours of Film, Charles Bramesco introduces an element of cinema that is often overlooked, yet has been used in extraordinary ways. Using infographic colour palettes and stills from the movies, this is a lively and fresh approach to film for cinema-goers and colour lovers.

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Colours of Film by Charles Bramesco has received positive attention, being highlighted as a recommended read by Town and Country and recognised as one of the 'Books of the Year' for 2023 by Sight & Sound. The book is evidently well-regarded within the Arts & Culture category.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711270312

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln

Illustration: 150

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 208

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Arts & Culture Charles Bramesco Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Charles Bramesco is a film and television critic living in Brooklyn. In addition to the Guardian, his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Little White Lies, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, Nylon, Vulture, Frieze, The A.V. Club, Indiewire, The Dissolve, Vox, and Pitchfork. He is the author of Vampire Movies (Little White Lies for William Collins, 2019).