Color It True

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Canada and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the editor of the Techniques of the Moving Image series and the Horizons of Cinema series, and co-editor of the Screen Decades and Star Decades series. Pomerance is a widely published scholar; his works include A Silence from Hitchcock (2023), Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience (Bloomsbury 2022), A Voyage with Hitchcock (2021), The Film Cheat (2020), Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic (2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), Cinema, If You Please (2018), Moment of Action (2016), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013), The Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience beyond Narrative and Theory (2008), and two BFI Classics on Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Map of Many Colors[1] Of BlueA Blue Parade: Irene Honestly, Blue: Les parapluies de Cherbourg [The Umbrellas of Cherbourg] Blue Narcissus: Anna Karenina Blue Distance: The Thief of Bagdad A Blue Provocation: Death in Venice A Civil Blue: Shane A Blue Tease: Psycho I Airless Blue: Le grand bleu [The Big Blue][2] Of PinkMarie et Marie: Marie Antoinette Pink Again: Vertigo Î A Blush: The Pink Panther Drink Me: The Nutty Professor Fitting Pink: Arizona Dream Pink Fire: The Passenger [Professione: Reporter] Pink World: Written on the Wind I The Pink Line: The Fight Club[3] Of WhiteWhite Redemption: Fahrenheit 451 Weisse: Marathon Man Snow White: Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams I Smashing!: The Bed Sitting Room Grave White: Forbidden Planet The Whitest Blood Around: Alien The Prince: The Godfather: Part II The White Butterfly: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence [Senjo no Meri Kurisumasu] White Presence: The Band Wagon[4] Of PurpleDisney Purple: Fantasia, Aladdin I The Purple Blade: The Fall of the Roman Empire Grinning Purple: Batman Purple Fingers: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Purple Tensions: Magnificent Obsession[5] Of OrangeMad Orange: Alice Through the Looking Glass Modest Orange: Aladdin II An Orange Meow: The Long Goodbye Orange for the Adventurer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind An Orange Shield: Vertigo II Temptation Orange: Written on the Wind II Death of a Fruit: The Godfather Burnt Orange: Jungle Book[6] Of GrayHistorical Gray: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Lord of the Rings; The Hobbit Gray Style: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: I Inert Gray: Donnie Darko Gray Proportion: 2001: A Space Odyssey I The Gray Vigil: A Ghost Story Screen Gray: Arrival The Gray Gulag: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Schematic Gray: Red Desert [Il deserto rosso][7] Of YellowPaved Yellow: The Wizard of Oz Celestial Yellow: Little Buddha Yellow and Tender: The Fugitive Yellow Crust: Watchmen Mother’s Yellow: Diary of a Mad Housewife Reflective Yellow: To Catch a Thief, The Dreamers Yellow Risk: Marnie I[8] Of BlackA Tale of Horror and Imagination: The Fly Black Faith: The Silver Chalice Seeing Past Black: “The Lone Ranger”; The Lone Ranger (1956); The Lone Ranger (2013) Fate: Treasure Island A Black Stream: Grease The Black Father: Star Wars Black Search: Psycho II Jocko: In the Heat of the Night[9] Of BrownContinuous Brown: Lawrence of Arabia Tyranny in Beige: Interiors The Brown Frontier: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly A Brown River: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory A Brown Chagrin: L’heure d’été [Summer Hours] Democratic Brown: North by Northwest Brown Filth: The Magic Christian[10] Of MauveSleight of Hand: Meet Me in St. Louis Mauve in Rotation: The King and I Natural Mauve: Amadeus Hot Mauve: Blow-Up I Retreat: Splendor in the Grass: I[11] Of RedExplode: Splendor in the Grass: II Stench: The Ten Commandments The Red Clue: Cries & Whispers Fire Apple: Rebel Without a Cause Red River: The Talented Mr. Ripley Choose This Red: The Red Shoes Rational Red: 2001: A Space Odyssey II Macula: Marnie II[12] Of GreenThe Green and Final Sea: Bonnie and Clyde The Green Fire: Green Lantern The Water Mill’s Green: Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams II Spectacular Green: The Wizard of Oz II To Swim and Not To Swim: Leave Her to Heaven; Call Me by Your Name Green Boy: The Boy with Green Hair; Bigger Than Life Green Redemption: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: II Green of Dreams: How Green Was My Valley Green Is the Wind: Blow-Up IIBibliographyIndex

In his multifaceted Color It True, Pomerance, an independent film scholar, takes readers on a dreamlike, surreal, personal journey through how he sees color being used in films internationally.