Questions of Colour in Cinema

The Editor: Wendy Everett is Reader in Film Studies and French at the University of Bath. Her principal research interests are in European cinema, and recent published books include European Identity in Cinema (2006), Revisiting Space. Space and Place in European Cinema (2005), jointly edited with Axel Goodbody, and a study of the work of the British director Terence Davies (2004). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Literature/Film Quarterly, and co-editor of Peter Lang’s New Studies in European Cinema.

• Contents: Wendy Everett: Mapping Colour: An Introduction to the Theories and Practices of Colour – Joshua Yumibe: Silent Cinema Colour Aesthetics – Raphaëlle Costa-de-Beauregard: From Screen to Flesh: The Language of Colour in The Belly of an Architect – Isabelle Vanderschelden: Digital Painting: Colour Treatment in the Cinema of Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Andrea Rinke: Sonnenallee - Rock’n’ Roll and Passport Control: How an East German Comedy Colours the Past – Wendy Everett: Colour as Space and Time: Alternative Visions in European Film – Laure Brost: On Seeing Red: The Figurative Movement of Film Colour – Ben McCann: ‘Bliss in Blueness’: Colour Strategies in the Films of Michael Mann – Richard Misek: ‘Last of the Kodak’: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Struggle with Colour – Hilaria Loyo: Blinding Blondes: Whiteness, Femininity, and Stardom – Liz Watkins: The (Dis)Articulation of Colour: Cinematography, Femininity, and Desire in Jane Campion’s In the Cut.