PART III

Part III, ‘Touching and Tasting in Colour’, explores the intersection of colour, film and cross-modal perception, often called ‘ synaesthesia’. The introduction sets the stage by presenting the historical mid-twentieth-century discourses on the senses and synaesthesia, current knowledge on cross-modal and multisensorial perception, and its importance for film spectatorship concerning affect and feelings. Interesting is the idea that the biological and innate state of the human sensory system is one of connection, which is overlayed by scientific categorisations and separation of the senses. This increases the significance of cross-modal perception and emphasises the importance of its study in a book on colour and feelings in film. Chapters Seven and Eight then delve into the intriguing world of food and touch, exploring how colour and film are linked to these phenomena. They also investigate whether there is a correlation between the growing freedom in the use of colour and the increase in sensuous representation and the activation of the cross-modal systems during the 1960s.