If It's Puple, Someone's Gonna Die - The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

Patti Bellantoni

Focal Press

2005

231 páginas

7h 42m

ISBN-10: 0240806883

Patti Bellantoni’s If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die has given us a highly entertaining
exploration of the world of color and its impact on our emotions. Told through
a careful analysis of motion pictures that have used color to enhance or define
their characters or dramatic needs, we are given a lively and insightful view of our
reactions to the film experience.
Leading us gently but firmly through places we may have taken for granted, we
find revelations that can be of real help to readers who use color to shape emotional
responses to concepts, as well as physical environments. We can never again take
the world of color for granted.
—Robert Boyle, four-time Oscar-nominated Production Designer:
North by Northwest, The Birds, The Thomas Crown Affair, Fiddler on the Roof.