Abstract
Keynote Beitrag. Auszug aus der Einleitung:
Colors add an immediate and emotionally charged dimension to films. Its significance has often been underestimated in the past. Starting in the mid-1990s an increasing number of scholarly publications have appeared, including Jacques Aumont’s seminal book in France (Aumont 1995), Dall’Asta et al. in Italy (1995) and Hertogs / de Klerk in the Netherlands (Hertogs et al. 1996) on color in silent film, followed in English by Dalle Vacche/Price (2006), Wendy Everett (2007), Scott Higgins (2007), Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard (2009), Richard Misek (2010), Paul Coates (2011), and several important publications by Sarah Street (Street 2009, Brown et al. 2012, Brown et al. 2013) and Joshua Yumibe (2012 and Street / Yumibe 2019), in German Susanne Marschall (2005) and Christine N. Brinckmann (2014, in English 2015), and in journals including issues of Film History (2000 and 2009) and of 1895 (2014). [...]