FAVh030 Color in Cinema

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
MgA. Mgr. Tereza Frodlová (lecturer)
Mgr. Jeanne Pommeau (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Radomír D. Kokeš, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 10:00–11:40 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The course aims to introduce the color in cinema as a multi-layered phenomenon that can be viewed from different perspectives. During the lectures we will follow the development of color film systems in the general context of the history of cinema. We will not only introduce their specific aesthetic, but we will also focus on the technical nature of the medium of color film and its materiality. We will introduce the specifics of preservation, restoration and presentation of color film materials. On the example of selected texts, we will introduce possible approaches to how we can think about color in cinema.
Learning outcomes
After the finishing this course, students will be able to orientate themselves in the development of colour in cinema. They will be acquainted with current approaches to the study of color in cinema and will have ability to think critically about selected theoretical issues. At the same time, they will be familiar with the basics of archival preservation and presentation of color film materials.
Syllabus
  • color in the pre-cinematographic period and in early cinema
  • color on film: coloring, tinting and toning
  • theory of color photography and early color film systems
  • monopack systems
  • introduction of color to Czechoslovak cinema
  • color postproduction
  • preservation, restoration and presentation of color film materials
  • photochemical restoration of tinted and toned films
  • thinking about color in film
Literature
  • Timeline of Historical Film Colors. Online na
  • YUMIBE, Joshua. Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism. New Brunswick – New Jersey – London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-8135-5297-2.
  • LAYTON, James - PIERCE, David (eds.). The Dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935. Rochester: George Eastman House, 2015. ISBN 978-0-935398281.
  • FLÜCKIGER, Barbara – HIELSCHER, Eva – WIETLISBACH, Nadine (eds.). Color Mania: Material of Color in Photography and Film. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2020. ISBN 978-3-03778-607-9.
  • SCHMIDT, Richard – KOCHS, Adolf. Technika barevného filmu. [Praha : s.n., 1962].
  • STREET, Sarah – YUMIBE, Joshua. Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. ISBN 9780231542289.
  • KRATOCHVÍL, Miloslav – MÁRA, Miloslav. Zpracování barevného filmu ve filmových laboratořích. Praha: Československý film, 1959.
  • FOSSATI, Giovanna (ed.). The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 94 6298 301 4.
  • STREET, Sarah. Colour films in Britain : the negotiation of innovation 1900-55. 1st pub. London: BFI, 2012, iv, 315. ISBN 9781844573134. info
  • MISEK, Richard. Chromatic cinema : a history of screen color. 1st pub. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, x, 227. ISBN 9781444332391. info
  • HIGGINS, Scott. Harnessing the technicolor rainbow : color design in the 1930s. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas, 2007, x, 292. ISBN 9780292716285. info
  • Questions of colour in cinema : from paintbrush to pixel. Edited by Wendy E. Everett. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007, 242 s. ISBN 9783039113538. info
  • Color : the film reader. Edited by Angela Dalle Vacche - Brian Price. 1st pub. New York: Routledge, 2006, x, 214. ISBN 0415324424. info
  • ENTICKNAP, Leo. Moving Image Technology. From Zoetrope to Digital. London: Wallflower Press, 2005, 280 pp. ISBN 1-904764-06-1. info
  • URBAN, Miroslav. Filmová laboratoř. 2., rozš. vyd. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění, 2001, 120 s. ISBN 8085883783. info
  • Restoration of motion picture film. Edited by Paul Read - Mark-Paul Meyer. 1st publ. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000, viii, 359. ISBN 075062793X. info
  • "Disorderly order" : colours in silent film : the 1995 Amsterdam workshop. Edited by Daan Hertogs - Nico de Klerk. Amsterdam: Stichting Nederlands Filmmuseum, 1996, 96 s. ISBN 9071338096. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, screenings, discussion about selected topics and literature.
Assessment methods
Presentation during the semester and the written exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
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