The True Colors of “False” Color: Representing Data Chromatically in NASA Films
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- dc.contributor.author Harris, C. E.
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
- dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
- dc.date.issued 2021
- dc.date.modified 2021-12-19T20:46:49Z
- dc.description.abstract This paper investigates the multifaceted uses of color — not (only) to aesthetic ends, but as a tool for translating data into narrative — in a corpus of recent NASA films. Often called ‘false’ color or accused of manipulation, these uses of digital color stray from photorealism but nonetheless have a direct, measurable relationship with physical reality: they use data to render visible that which lies outside the spectrum of visible light. The focus of this paper is on the truth status of these digital films and on the practices used to produce them. It situates them, as a corpus, within and in response to film studies historiographies of color centered around spectacle and the dichotomy of fantasy versus reality, addressing how color can deploy the powers of the false to reveal otherwise invisible truths through art and artifice.
- dc.format application/pdf
- dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/386893
- dc.identifier 2604-9821
- dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2021.v9.i17.04
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62288
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol. 9, Núm. 17 (2021): Color Contrast. Chromatic Connections in Cinema, p. 57-78
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol 9, No 17 (2021): Color Contrast. Chromatic Connections in Cinema, p. 57-78
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol. 9, Núm. 17 (2021): Color Contrast. Chromatic Connections in Cinema, p. 57-78
- dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/386893/487090
- dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2021 Comparative Cinema
- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
- dc.subject.other Color (meaning and function)
- dc.subject.other Digital Film
- dc.subject.other Data Visualization
- dc.subject.other Epistemology
- dc.subject.other Truth Status
- dc.subject.other Indexicality
- dc.subject.other NASA
- dc.title The True Colors of “False” Color: Representing Data Chromatically in NASA Films
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion