Charles Bramesco

What's so wonderful about Bramesco's book, outside of a visually splendid layout that embraces the first word of that title with detailed color breakdowns of each palette, is how much it enhances the critical language of the average viewer.' - Brian Tallerico, Editor of RogerEbert.comTaking you from the earliest feature films to today, Colours of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that colour played in their success. The use of colour is an essential part of film. It has the power to evoke powerful emotions, provide subtle psychological symbolism and act as a narrative device.Wes Anderson's pastels and muted tones are aesthetically pleasing, but his careful use of colour also acts as a shorthand for interpreting emotion. And let's not forget Schindler's List (1993, dir. Steven Spielberg), in which a bold flash of red against an otherwise black-and-white film is used as a powerful symbol of life, survival and death.

* Un viaje desde los primeros largometrajes hasta la actualidad, con 50 películas icónicas de las que explica el papel fundamental del color en su éxito. * Piense en los intensos colores rosa chicle de The Grand Budapest Hotel de Wes Anderson, la psicodelia alucinogena de 2001: A Space Odyssey de Stanley Kubrik, o los suaves violetas y tonalidades pastel de The Virgin Suicides de Sofia Coppola: el color en una pelicula puede ser tremendamente poderoso. * La gama cromatica tiene la capacidad de relatar una historia, despertar emociones, favorecer una narrativa, o simplemente saturar la pantalla con unos elementos visuales hermosos e imponentes. En este libro, el critico de cine y television Charles Bramesco presenta un elemento del septimo arte que a menudo se pasa por alto, pero que se ha empleado de forma extraordinaria. Con la ayuda de gamas cromaticas y fotogramas de las peliculas, esta es una guia indispensable para introducirnos en uno de los elementos visuales mas importantes que forman parte del cine.