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Radio 3,24 Mar 2025,14 mins

Series New Generation Thinkers 2024

Technicolor Wars

The Essay

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From The Wizard of Oz to Madame Mao, Kirsty Sinclair Dootson鈥檚 essay explores the politics of making films in colour - specifically Technicolor - a process synonymous with American cinema that was the envy of political powers across Russia, Germany and China. The story takes us from Hollywood to Auschwitz to Instagram. Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the 麻豆社 to put academic research on radio. She is a lecturer in Film and Media at University College London, and author of a book The Rainbow鈥檚 Gravity. Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed

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