The Politics of Colour Media

Issue 17, Summer 2020 Guest-Edited by Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson

Letter from the Editors


The Politics of Colour


Colour and the Critique of Advertising: Privilege (Peter Watkins, 1967) and Herostratus (Don Levy, 1967)


Small-Gauge Colour Visions: The Role of Amateur Filmmakers in Italy’s Transition from Black-and-White to Colour


Fabricating Images at the Color Factory


Reading the Light Right: The Exposure of Asian Skin Tones in Cinematography


The Politics of Post-Socialist Colour in Nimród Antal’s Kontroll (2003)


The Colour of the Possible: Olafur Eliasson, and Gilles Deleuze’s ‘Colour-Image’ in Claire Denis’ High Life


The Memory of Colour: Havana Divas, Cantonese Opera


Talking Colour: Remembering the Eastmancolor Revolution


Poland Daily: Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

Reviewed by Eliza Rose


Studying Ida

Reviewed by Lucia Szemetova


Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies

Reviewed by Cassice Last


Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices

Reviewed by Marie-Pierre Burquier


The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Reviewed by Ana Maria Sapountzi


The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema / Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s

Reviewed by Patrick Adamson


Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women

Reviewed by Dina Iordanova


Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide

Reviewed by Forrest Pando


Archiving and Film Restoration: The View From Asia


Rediscovery and Restoration of a ‘Lost’ Thai Classic: Santi-Vina


Mouldy Magenta – Celluloid to Digital: Giving a Second Life to Films


Keeping Cinema’s Memory Alive in Hong Kong: An Interview with Bede Cheng, Managing Director at L’Immagine Ritrovata Asia


A Life in the Archives: An interview with Professor Nick Deocampo