Color at the center: Minnelli's Technicolor style in 'Meet Me in St. Louis.' - Style in Cinema - filmmaker Vincente Minnelli
Style, Fall, 1998 by Scott Higgins
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Scott Higgins (shiggins@students.wisc.edu) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently completing his dissertation, An Aesthetic History of Technicolor: 1934-1942.
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