| Title | 8. Touching Colours |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Bregt Lameris(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0380.11 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0380/chapters/10.11647/obp.0380.11 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Bregt Lameris |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2025-03-06 |
| Long abstract | Chapter Eight pushes the idea of cross-modality by analysing touch and haptic mimicry in film, discussing textures and surfaces in relation to colour. It dives into the discussion of gender and colour, with a focus on tensions created in the representation of the female skin juxtaposed to coloured surfaces of various textures. The chapter ends with an elaboration of pornographic film as the ultimate ‘body genre’ and the way colour has slowly entered its domain. |
| Page range | pp. 199–234 |
| Print length | 36 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.