CINÉMA&CIE, INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XX, no. 32, SPRING 2019

Elena Gipponi is a postdoctoral fellow at IULM University of Milan, where she obtained her PhD in ‘Communication and New Technologies’, with a thesis that explores the use of colour in Italian home movies and amateur cinema. Since 2008, she collaborates to Iulm’s courses of History of Cinema. She has published many essays, particularly on contemporary Italian cinema and on the transition from black and white to colour in the Italian media landscape. Joshua Yumibe is Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies at Michigan State University. He is the author of Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (Rutgers University Press, 2012), co-author of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) with Giovanna Fossati, Tom Gunning, and Jonathon Rosen, and most recently of Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s (Columbia University Press, 2019) with Sarah Street.

• Cinema and Mid-Century Colour Culture: An Introduction - The History of a Broken Blue Fusuma: Colour in Suzuki Seijun’s Nikkatsu Films - From the Margins to the Mainstream? The Eastmancolor Revolution and Challenging the Realist Canon in British Cinema - The Colour Revolution: Disney, DuPont and Faber Birren - Biopolitics of Colour in Mid-Century Italian Visual Culture: Red Desert and the ‘New Techniques of Life’ - Colour Communications: László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Paepcke, and the Humanities Program of Design Workshops - Hallucinating Colours: Psychedelic Film, Technology, Aesthetics and Affect The Body as Virtual Frame: Performativity of the Image in Immersive Environments