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UNINA9910779281003321 |
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Autore |
Yumibe Joshua <1974-> |
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Titolo |
Moving color [[electronic resource] ] : early film, mass culture, modernism / / Joshua Yumibe |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-49227-9 |
9786613587503 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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Collana |
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Techniques of the moving image |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Color cinematography - History |
Colorization of motion pictures - History |
Silent films - History and criticism |
Colors in motion pictures |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Foreword / by Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Introduction -- The colors of modernity -- Hand coloring and the intermediality of the cinema -- Transformation and uplift: stenciling, tinting, and toning -- Color cinema, from gentility to abstraction -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Color was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz. Thomas Edison, for example, projected two-colored films at his first public screening in New York City on April 23, 1896. These first colors of early cinema were not photographic; they were applied manually through a variety of laborious processes-most commonly by the hand-coloring and stenciling of prints frame by frame, and the tinting and toning of films in vats of chemical dyes. The results were remarkably beautiful.; Moving Color is the first book-length study of the beginnings of color cinema. Looking backward, Joshua Yumibe traces |
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