If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

Index

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About Schmidt

credits

defining space, 104

melancholy blue in, xxix, 81, 104

Age of Innocence, The

blue-reds in, 11, 12

cautionary yellow in, 35–36, 70

credits, 33

purple as death of delusion in, 35

red as guide to what is not said in, 33–35

romantic red in, 33–35

Ambivalent greens, 166–169

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 169, 213–215

Mosquito Coast, The, 166–167

American Beauty

angry red in, 25–27

credits, 25

passive blue in, 27, 107

powerless blue in, 27, 81

red, white, and blue permeating, 25–27

seething reds, 27

American Graffiti

car that defined a generation, 45–46

credits, 45

exuberant yellow in, 45–46

naïve orange in, 29–30, 130

orange that gives it syntax, 46–47

passive blue in, 45

Taxi Driver yellow versus yellow in, 53

American ...