Book Review: Bright Signals: A History of Colour Television

Abramson A (1987) The History of Television. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Burns RW (2008) The Struggle for Unity: Colour Television, the Formative Years. London: Institution of Electrical Engineering.

Dyer R (2009) White. London: Routledge.

Fickers A (2010) The techno-politics of colour: Britain and the European struggle for a colour television standard. Journal of British Cinema and Television 7(1): 95–114.

Fielding R (1967) A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Kane CL (2014) Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics After Code. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Roth L (2009) Looking at Shirley, the ultimate norm: colour balance, image technologies, and cognitive equity. Canadian Journal of Communication 34(1): 111–136.

Shiers G (2010) The Technical Development of Television. Stratford, NH: Ayer.

Spigel L (2008) TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Sterne S Mulvin D (2014) Scenes from an imaginary country: test images and the American colour television standard. Television and New Media 17(1): 21–43.

Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Colour (1961–1969) NBC, Walt Disney Productions.

Wheatley H (2016) Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual Pleasure. London: I.B. Tauris.

Winston B (1996) A whole technology of dyeing: a note on ideology and the apparatus of the chromatic moving image. Daedalus 114 (4): 105–123.