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IF IT’S PURPLE, SOMEONE’S GONNA DIE

Patti Bellantoni’s If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die has given us a highly entertaining exploration of the world of color and its impact on our emotions. Told through a careful analysis of motion pictures that have used color to enhance or define their characters or dramatic needs, we are given a lively and insightful view of our reactions to the film experience.

Leading us gently but firmly through places we may have taken for granted, we find revelations that can be of real help to readers who use color to shape emotional responses to concepts, as well as physical environments. We can never again take the world of color for granted.

—Robert Boyle, four-time Oscar-nominated Production Designer: ...

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