The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades,
documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics
of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses. Employing a
bottom-up approach as a basis for theoretical exploration, each of the
essays concentrates on a particular film or a number of related films to
come to terms with a set of issues. These include the differences
between black-and-white and color works, the emergence of bold chromatic
schemes in the 1950s, experimental aesthetics of color negative stock,
idiosyncratic uses of colour, idiosyncratic uses of motor mimicry,
genre-specific reactions to the documentary, and empathetic reactions to
animals and to architecture in film.