If it's purple, someone's gonna die : the power of color in visual storytelling / / Patti Bellantoni

• Autore: Bellantoni Patti
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Focal, 2005
• Edizione: 1st American pbk. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4301
• Soggetto topico: Colors in motion pictures; Motion pictures
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; If it's purple, someone's gonna die; Copyright Page; Contents; Brief Filmographies; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Backstory; 1 Red: The Caffeinated Color; Chapter 1-Powerful, Lusty, and Defiant Reds; Powerful Reds; The Wizard of Oz; Working Girl; Dick Tracy; Lusty Reds; The Thomas Crown Affair (Original); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Shakespeare in Love; Sea of Love; Defiant Reds; Rebel Without a Cause; Chocolat; Malcolm X; Chapter 2-Anxious, Angry, and Romantic Reds; Anxious Reds; The Sixth Sense; Run Lola Run; Angry Reds; Philadelphia; Schindler's List; American Beauty ; Romeo + JulietRomantic Reds; The Age of Innocence; An American in Paris; Witness; Racing with the Moon; The Cider House Rules; 2 Yellow: The Contrary Color; Chapter 3-Exuberant, Obsessive, and Daring Yellows; Exuberant Yellows; American Graffiti; Billy Elliot; The Wizard of Oz; Obsessive Yellows; Taxi Driver; Romeo + Juliet; The English Patient; Daring Yellows; The Thomas Crown Affair; Dick Tracy; Chapter 4-Innocent, Cautionary, and Idyllic Yellows; Innocent Yellows; Chinatown; Rosemary's Baby; Cautionary Yellows; The Age of Innocence; The Caveman's Valentine; Idyllic Yellows ; Much Ado About NothingThe Talented Mr. Ripley; Malcolm X; Gladiator; 3 Blue: The Detached Color; Chapter 5-Powerless, Cerebral, and Warm Blues; Powerless Blues; Tootsie; The Wizard of Oz; Sense and Sensibility; The Shawshank Redemption; Rosemary's Baby; Cerebral Blues; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Malcolm X; Blow-Up; Warm Blues; Working Girl; Billy Elliot; Chocolat; Chapter 6-Melancholy, Cold, and Passive Blues; Melancholy Blues; The Shipping News; About Schmidt; Cold Blues; The Sixth Sense; Snow Falling on Cedars; Romeo + Juliet; Passive Blues; American Beauty; The Cider House Rules ; 4 Orange: The Sweet and Sour ColorChapter 7-Warm, Naïve, and Romantic Oranges; Warm Oranges; The Godfather; My Family/Mi Familia; The Big Easy; Naïve Oranges; Elizabeth; Thelma & Louise; American Graffiti; Romantic Oranges; Bull Durham; Far from Heaven; Chapter 8-Exotic, Toxic, and Natural Earth Oranges; Exotic Oranges; A Little Princess; Monsoon Wedding; Toxic Oranges; Blade Runner; Apocalypse Now Redux; Gattaca; Natural Earth Oranges; Unforgiven; Thelma & Louise; 5 Green: The Split Personality Color; Chapter 9-Healthy, Ambivalent, and Vital Greens; Healthy Greens; Witness ; Gorillas in the MistAmbivalent Greens; The Mosquito Coast; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Vital Greens; Saving Private Ryan; The Thin Red Line; Chapter 10-Poisonous, Ominous, and Corrupt Greens; Poisonous Greens; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; The Wizard of Oz; Ominous Greens; The Caveman's Valentine; Gattaca; A Little Princess; Corrupt Greens; The Virgin Suicides; Cabaret; Great Expectations; 6 Purple: The Beyond-the-Body Color; Chapter 11-Asexual, Illusory, and Fantastic Purples; Asexual Purples; Eyes Wide Shut; Blow-Up; Illusory Purples; Rushmore; Tootsie; Dick Tracy; Far from Heaven ; Fantastic Purples
• Sommario/riassunto: If it's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die is a must-read book for all film students, film professionals, and others interested in filmmaking. This enlightening book guides filmmakers toward making the right color selections for their films, and helps movie buffs understand why they feel the way they do while watching movies that incorporate certain colors. Guided by her twenty-five years of research on the effects of color on behavior, Bellantoni has grouped more than 60 films under the spheres of influence of six major colors, each of which triggers very specific emo
• Titolo autorizzato: If it's purple, someone's gonna die
• ISBN: 1-136-06845-7; 1-136-06846-5; 1-281-00879-6; 9786611008796; 1-4237-2256-6; 0-08-047841-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828650003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II