TY - CHAP
T1 - Being-in-(techni)color
AU - Friedlander, Eli
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Katalin Makkai for selection and editorial matter; individual contributors for their contributions.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - My interpretation of the character of colors in Vertigo is guided by, and makes contact repeatedly with, Stanley Cavell’s chapter “The World as a Whole: Color” in his book The World Viewed (1971). In particular I wish to follow up the consequences of its opening claim: “A. . . major property of film which can serve to declare its recording of a total world is color” (80). Hitchcock’s Vertigo is for Cavell “the great example of this combination of fantasy and color symbolism. . . The film estab lishes the moment of moving from one color space into another as one of moving from one world to another” (84). Specifically, Cavell recalls the scene in which Scottie, following Madeleine, enters through a dark alley and, as he opens the back door into the shimmering Podesta Baldocchi florist shop, is flooded by color.
AB - My interpretation of the character of colors in Vertigo is guided by, and makes contact repeatedly with, Stanley Cavell’s chapter “The World as a Whole: Color” in his book The World Viewed (1971). In particular I wish to follow up the consequences of its opening claim: “A. . . major property of film which can serve to declare its recording of a total world is color” (80). Hitchcock’s Vertigo is for Cavell “the great example of this combination of fantasy and color symbolism. . . The film estab lishes the moment of moving from one color space into another as one of moving from one world to another” (84). Specifically, Cavell recalls the scene in which Scottie, following Madeleine, enters through a dark alley and, as he opens the back door into the shimmering Podesta Baldocchi florist shop, is flooded by color.
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U2 - 10.4324/9780203100578-15
DO - 10.4324/9780203100578-15
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AN - SCOPUS:85087691588
SN - 9780415494465
SP - 174
EP - 193
BT - Vertigo
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -