"Comparative Cinema" closes the year with its issue No. 17, "Color Contrast"
The academic journal Comparative Cinema has published its issue No. 17, "Color Contrast: Chromatic Connections in Cinema", edited by Stefan Solomon. The publication, by the CINEMA research group, is focused on how color and its absence can be used productively for comparative film analysis.
With articles by Sarah Street, Edson Costa Júnior, C.E. Harris, Andrew I. Philip, Olivia Kristina Stutz and Liz Watkins, the dossier explores a wide array of case studies along the history of cinema, from silent to contemporary, including the colorization of past films, the uses of color in practice-as-research, and also its uses in the representation of data.
Editorial
Color Contrast: Chromatic Connections in Cinema, per Stefan Solomon
Articles
The “Exaggerated” Colors of Black Narcissus (1947 and 2020), per Sarah Street
Memories from the Darkness in the Films of Pedro Costa and Affonso Uchôa, per Edson Costa Júnior
The True Colors of “False” Color: Representing Data Chromatically in NASA Films, per C. E. Harris
True Colors: Chromaticity, Realism and Technological Honesty, per Andrew I. Philip
The Hybrid Color Film: Multiplicity of Space, Time, and Matter, per Olivia Kristina Stutz
The Politics of Nostalgia: Colorization, Spectatorship and the Archive, per Liz Watkins
Book reviews