This course will introduce students to a variety of methods — theoretical and historical — for the study of colour in film. We will be considering the development of various forms of colour technology and the pressures that such developments placed on cinematic style and later on the histories of style. We will also be concerned to develop strategies of colour interpretation that make use of the perceptual slipperiness of colour itself. Likewise, colour presents us with new questions about the nature of cinematic perception and naming. Thus we will move, as well, into larger philosophical questions about colour and vision, which should reorient the kinds of questions we ask about not only a work of art, but also about the knowledge and being.