Editors Professor Sarah Street (University of Bristol) and Professor Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State University) will be joined by William Carroll (University of Alberta), Josephine Diecke (University of Zurich), Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (UCL) and Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) to discuss this vital study of photochemical colour monopack film stocks on global film markets throughout the 1940s-1980s.

William Carroll is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta, where he teaches on contemporary Japanese film, media, and culture. His first book is titled Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema. He is currently working on a book about cinephile culture and film production in Japan from the 1980s through the present.

Josephine Diecke is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Zurich. She has conducted extensive research on the history of color film technologies, moving image preservation, and digital methods for computer-assisted text and video analysis. Her expertise stems from her work as a research associate on the “Filmcolors” project (University of Zurich), as the academic coordinator of the “Digital Cinema-Hub” project (Philipps-Universität Marburg), and as a film lab technician for various service providers. She holds a PhD from the University of Zurich, having written a thesis on Agfacolor and Orwocolor, and is coeditor of the Open Media Studies blog.

Kirsty Sinclair Dootson is a lecturer in film and media at University College London. Her work has appeared in Screen, Film History, and British Art Studies, and she has written a book titled The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour Materiality and British Modernity.

Ranjani Mazumdar is a professor of cinema studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications focus on the cinematic city, spatial aesthetics, and techno-urbanism. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City, coeditor, with Neepa Majumdar, of A Companion to Indian Cinema, and guest editor of a special issue of Bioscope on cinema and techno-materiality. Her current research focuses on globalization and film culture; intermedial encounters; and the intersection of technology, travel, design, and color in Bombay cinema of the 1960s.

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