Editors’ Foreword
- Editors’ Foreword
Our special issue devoted to restoring color has been expertly guest edited by Joshua Yumibe, an internationally renowned and respected scholar on the subject. Josh’s book Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (2012) has been honored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the Cinémathèque Française. He has also authored several articles based on his research on early color processes and their aesthetic implications as well as work done in collaboration with Paolo Cherchi Usai on the applications of color in the Davide Turconi collection of nitrate film frames.
Josh has brought his knowledge and network of researchers together to create a special issue that gives empirical depth and chronological breadth to the subject. We are indebted to his fine work.
The editors also thank the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and its director, Professor Thomas V. Merluzzi, for the generous subvention that made this issue’s color reproduction possible. We are also grateful to the staff of the University of Minnesota Press, who rose to the challenge added by this technological enhancement.
This issue is definitely a keeper! [End Page vii]
Donald Crafton is the Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre. He teaches in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.
Susan Ohmer is the William Carey and Helen Kuhn Carey Associate Professor of Modern Communications. She teaches in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.
