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This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor or symbol, or else part of a broader signifying system. Murray Pomerance's latest meditation on cinema has the author embed himself in various ways of thinking about color; not ways of framing it as a production trick or a symbolic language but ways of wondering how the color effect onscreen can work in the act of viewing. Pomerance examines many issues, including acuity, dreaming, interrelationships, saturations, color contrasts, color and performance (color as a performance aid or even performance substitute), and more. The lavender of the photographer's seamless in Antonioni's Blow-Up taken in itself as an explosion of color worked into form, and then considered both as part of the story and part of our experience. The 14 chapters of this book each discuss a single primary color as regards to our experience of cinema. After opening the idea of such an exploration in terms of the history of our apperception and the variation in our experience that color germinates, Color it True takes form.

Filtiran Saga is the authors updated and revised debut novella originally written back in 2008 when the author was in middle school. The story is told by Kiba as he is interviewed by a human reporter who happened to see his tail. Kiba explains how his pack lived and how legends were past down about an amazing tree, which eventually became their home when they were run out of their dens by humans carrying curving fangs, and long black sticks of wood that shot fire. How he met and taught a human how to survive out in the forest. How he slowly fell in love. This is his story. His saga. Kiba a Filtiran (Lord of the wolves) tells all in this up and close interview letting the humans know that THEY exist.