Monday, January 26, 2009

Bibliography of books and articles

This is a partial biography of books and articles that may prove useful for this course. Please let me know if you would like copies or links for any of these. I also have copies of most of the chapters in Derek Jarman's Chroma, and the articles in the Color: A Film Reader anthology (I will list these titles this week).

History of Color Technology

“Cinecolor” by John Belton

“Technicolor Revival” by Richard W. Haines

“Demonstrating three-colour Technicolor: Early three-colour aesthetics and design” by Scott Higgins

“Colorful Metaphors: The Attraction of Color in Early Silent Cinema” by Tom Gunning http://www.muspe.unibo.it/period/fotogen/num01/numero1d.htm

Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow (excerpt) by Scott Higgins http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exhighar.html

General Color and Cinema

Color: The Film Reader edited by Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price (anthology with many interesting articles)

Derek Jarman’s Chroma

The Art of Watching Films by Joseph M. Boggs and Dennis W. Petrie

General Color and Arts

Chromophobia by David Batchelor

A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
by John Gage

Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments by Guineau Delamare

Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball

The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
by Ellen Meloy

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