| Title | 2. Colour Contrasts, Culture and Perception |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Bregt Lameris(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0380.03 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0380/chapters/10.11647/obp.0380.03 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Bregt Lameris |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2025-03-06 |
| Long abstract | Chapter Two lays out a cultural history of the discourses on colour contrasts, from the creation of colour systems to physiological discussions on the eye and the retina, as well as the current knowledge of colour perception, the eye and the nervous system. Part of this history is that of physiological research of the retina, explaining the biological and discursive importance of colour contrasts in Western thought and ideas on colour perception and harmony. |
| Page range | pp. 43–58 |
| Print length | 16 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Bregt Lameris works as a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the Open Universiteit (Heerlen), where she develops courses on for example the digital transition and the experience of cultural heritage, stigma in media, clothes and identity, disability studies and culture. Her colour research was embedded at the University of Zurich, where she was a postdoctoral researcher within the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘FilmColors’. Other research interests are stigma, media and mental health, media archaeology, film archiving, film historiography, affect, emotions and subjectivity in audiovisual representation, and disability studies. In 2017 she published her monograph Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography which is available in Open Access through Amsterdam University Press. She was a co-editor of the book The Colour Fantastic. Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema (2018), as well as of several special issues of various journals (Journal for Media History, Montage AV, Necsus, Locus.