Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s

by Joshua Yumibe and Sarah Street

Book Overview

The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and the rise of Technicolor--despite the fact that new color technologies used in film, advertising, fashion, and industry reshaped cinema and consumer culture. In Chromatic Modernity, Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231179839
• ISBN13: 9780231179836
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"