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Copyright

Bregt Lameris

Published On

2025-03-06

Page Range

pp. 95–100

Language

  • English

Print Length

6 pages

PART II

COLOUR PSYCHOLOGIES

Chapter of: Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s(pp. 95–100)
Part II, ’Colour Psychologies’, delves into the practical applications of colour control, psychology, and therapy. Colour was believed to influence, steer and discipline the human body, a tradition that dates back to the nineteenth century. Several practices emerged from this belief, such as using colour to guide and warn people and steer their behaviour, known as functional colours. Another practice was that of colour psychology, putting into practice beliefs on how colours elicit certain feelings and emotions and can guide attention.

Contributors

Bregt Lameris

(author)
Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Open University in the Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3077-7331
https://www.ou.nl/web/open-universiteit/zoek-medewerker#!user/bl1

Bregt Lameris works as a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the Open Universiteit (Heerlen), where she develops courses on for example the digital transition and the experience of cultural heritage, stigma in media, clothes and identity, disability studies and culture. Her colour research was embedded at the University of Zurich, where she was a postdoctoral researcher within the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘FilmColors’. Other research interests are stigma, media and mental health, media archaeology, film archiving, film historiography, affect, emotions and subjectivity in audiovisual representation, and disability studies. In 2017 she published her monograph Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography which is available in Open Access through Amsterdam University Press. She was a co-editor of the book The Colour Fantastic. Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema (2018), as well as of several special issues of various journals (Journal for Media History, Montage AV, Necsus, Locus.