Global Film Color

SARAH STREET is a professor of film and Foundation Chair of Drama at the University of Bristol in the UK. She has written and co-edited several books, including Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-1955 and Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s,  co-authored with Joshua Yumibe.JOSHUA YUMIBE is a professor of film studies and English at Michigan State University. He has written, edited, and co-edited several books, including Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (Rutgers University Press, 2012) and Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema, w co-authored with Giovanna Fossati, Tom Gunning, and Jonathon Rosen.

• Introduction SARAH STREET AND JOSHUA YUMIBEMapping the Laboratory: Technicolor across Asia and Europe: KIRSTY SINCLAIR DOOTSON“Keeping Your Enemies Closer”: Strategies of Knowledge Transfer at the East German Filmfabrik Wolfen: JOSEPHINE DIECKE“We’re Not in Sweden Anymore”: Technicolor’s Brief Venture in Swedish Cinema: KAMALIKA SANYAL“Risk versus Conformity”: Soviet Color Film, 1956–1982: PHILIP CAVENDISHEastman Color in 1960s India: RANJANI MA ZUMDARColoring the Coastline: Italian Beachside Comedies and the Color Film Transition: ELENA GIPPONITechnological and Athletic Splendor: The Formation of Color in the Socialist Sports Film in China: LINDA C. ZHANGThe Chinese Film Collection at the University of South Carolina: HEATHER HECKMAN, LAURA MAJOR, AND LYDIA PAPPASThe Lights That Raised Up a Storm: Neon and the Nikkatsu Action Color Film, 1957–1963: WILLIAM CARROLLColor as a Foreign Accent: Brazilian Films and Film Laboratories in the 1950s: RAFAEL DE LUNA FREIREBritish Film Criticism and Global Color: SARAH STREETAll about Landscape: The Shift to Color in Australian Film at Midcentury: KATHRYN MILLARD AND STEFAN SOLOMONMoving Monochromatics: Paul Sharits and Color Field Aesthetics in a Global Context: GREGORY ZINMANOn Vivid Colors and Afrotropes in African and Diasporic Cinemas: JOSHUA YUMIBEAcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors

"Global Film Color brings together a truly international group of contributors working with sources in multiple languages to offer readers a vivid spectrum of fascinating insights about uses of color in world cinema." - Matthew Solomon (author of Méliès Boots) "An important work that opens up new territory in global color, with particular strengths in Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian, and Indian film and media. New archival materials, case studies, and distribution and exhibition histories offer an exciting new direction to color studies."- Kirsten Moana Thompson (chair of the Film and Media Department at Seattle University.)