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Janet Wolff
different world. In Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire the coming-into-colour signifies the angels’ full immersion in the ‘real’ world of everyday life. So the effect of adjusting from black-and-white films to the new colour cinema must have been something similar. In a context in which reality has been conventionally represented in black and white, the introduction of colour was bound to register a kind of exotic shift. The history of colour cinema and its technologies is a fairly new, and fast expanding, field in film studies, but I haven’t Colour (mainly blue) [ 77