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Very useful book when shooting in Raw. It offers a whole chapter on how to colour grade RAW in DaVinci Resolve. The book is available online through the UoS library and I have also added it to the Dropbox folder

Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving images, from hand painting in early skirt dance films to current trends in digital color manipulation. The book is available to view online through the UoS library

This book is available from the UoS library to view online

Volume 7, issue 1 of this Journal seems to have a few articles about the use of colour in films. You can get full access to the articles through the Shibboleth link

"Citation Information. Journal of British Cinema and Television. Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 82-94, ISSN 1743-4521, Available Online April 2010 . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E1743452109001356"

Film fans might have noticed a colour revolution in cinema recently, because Hollywood seems to gave gone teal-and-orange crazy. Studio films from Hot Tub Time Machine to Iron Man 2 have used the combination, with the greenish-blue teal forming a backdrop and the orange (which includes flesh tones) in the foreground.

If 2013 was the year of the selfie, then 2014 is the year of the hyper-short film. Today, people don't just watch films in cinemas or living rooms. Instead, the term "movies" takes on a new connotation, as people download and consume on the move: on foot, or on the train, sometimes with just seconds to spare, as the content flows through their Facebook or Twitter streams on their mobile devices.