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Color Motifs in BLACK NARCISSUS

Color Motifs in BLACK NARCISSUS

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Professor Kristin Thompson breaks down the lush palette of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s sensuous masterpiece, showing how set designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff use splashes of color to trace the film’s emotional arc.

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