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Tell us a little about your research鈥�

I鈥檓 interested in the politics of making images in colour. My work asks: what are colours made from? How are they made, by who? How do those factors shape colour鈥檚 look and its meanings? I鈥檝e written about Hollywood cosmetics, Victorian pigment grinding, and dyeing Technicolor film strips in socialist China. My book The Rainbow鈥檚 Gravity asked how new colour media technologies transformed the way Britain saw itself and its empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and I鈥檓 currently collaborating on a project called Bombay Film Colour, exploring the power of Hindi colour cinema in the 1950s following Indian Independence.

Why is your research important?

Whenever I tell people I work on colour their instant response is 鈥渙h fun!鈥� Colour is powerful precisely because it masquerades as something trivial, frivolous, and 鈥渇un鈥�. Yet when we learn more about how colour is made and where it comes from, we see it is deeply connected to colonialism, enslavement, chemical warfare and environmental damage. 聽Watching a Technicolor musical, you think the colours are fun, but they鈥檙e made from coal, and are suspended in gelatin made from slaughtered cows!

What inspires you in your work?

Students asking difficult questions! I鈥檝e taught a seminar called Global Film Colour for several years and am lucky that brilliant students (shout out: Lucy Szemetov谩, Rachel Ng and Molly Ryan) questioned the narratives I taught. They made me rethink assumptions about colour and the cold war, the environment and geopolitics.

What has been your most memorable career moment so far?

Responding to a question I posed about the Hollywood melodrama Stella Dallas, the eminent film scholar V.F. Perkins told me he thought the film is perhaps more sophisticated than I am. 聽He wasn鈥檛 wrong. Otherwise, I was also proper chuffed to win the BAFTSS Best First Monograph Award this year!聽

What passions/hobbies do you have outside of work?

I play roller derby: a full contact sport played on roller skates. I skate with London Brawling, currently the top-ranked team in Europe!

What book is currently on your bedside table?

I鈥檓 re-reading Martin Amis鈥� The Zone of Interest as I鈥檓 currently writing on the politics of colour in Jonathon Glazer鈥檚 film adaptation.