{"id":87949,"date":"2015-07-20T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=87949"},"modified":"2015-07-20T10:44:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:44:33","slug":"this-explosion-brought-to-you-by-hand-coloring-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/20\/this-explosion-brought-to-you-by-hand-coloring-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"This Explosion Brought to You By Hand Coloring, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_87951\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/inventorcrazybrainsandhiswonderfulairship1906.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87951\" class=\"wp-image-87951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/inventorcrazybrainsandhiswonderfulairship1906.png\" alt=\"inventorcrazybrainsandhiswonderfulairship1906\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/inventorcrazybrainsandhiswonderfulairship1906.png 733w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/inventorcrazybrainsandhiswonderfulairship1906-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from <i>Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship<\/i>, 1906.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>In its early days, America decided to differentiate itself from its oppressors across the pond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/how-do-you-speak-american-mostly-just-make-up-words\" target=\"_blank\">by giving the language a bit of a face-lift<\/a>: we borrowed words from other tongues, reclaimed British words that had fallen into disuse, and\u2014this is the really American part\u2014just made a bunch of stuff up. In 1919, H. L. Mencken published <em>The American Language<\/em>, a lexicon of uniquely U. S. neologisms: \u201c<em>rubber-neck, rough-house<\/em>,<em> has-been<\/em>,<em> lame-duck<\/em>,<em> bust<\/em>,<em> bum<\/em>,<em> scary<\/em>,<em> classy<\/em>,<em> tasty<\/em>,<em> lengthy<\/em>,<em> alarmist<\/em>,<em> capitalize<\/em>,<em> propaganda<\/em>,<em> whitewash<\/em>,<em> panhandle<\/em>,<em> shyster<\/em>,<em> sleuth<\/em>,<em> sundae<\/em>,<em> alright<\/em>,<em> go-getter<\/em>,<em> he-man<\/em>,<em> goof<\/em>. Only in America can you go upstate for the weekend. Here, we engineer, stump, hog, and squat on a piece of land. We\u2019ve stolen loads\u00a0from Spanish: <em>corral<\/em>,<em> ranch<\/em>,<em> alfafa<\/em>,<em> mustang<\/em>,<em> canyon<\/em>,<em> poncho<\/em>,<em> plaza<\/em>,<em> tornados<\/em>,<em> patio<\/em>,<em> bonanza<\/em>,<em> vigilante<\/em>,<em> mosey<\/em>, and <em>buckaroo<\/em>. Americans are\u00a0very talented coiners of words\u2014including of <em>talented<\/em>, another new one that sent British writers into spasms of horror.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, well before Technicolor, <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/26\/color\/the-phantasmagoria-of-the-first-hand_painted-films\" target=\"_blank\">films were colorized, stenciled, tinted, and toned by hand, frame by laborious frame<\/a>. The results were unlike anything on screens today: \u201cSuch coloring provided a sensual quality, making moving images seem enticingly tactile \u2026 Because each hand-colored print had to be dyed separately, no two copies were colored in exactly the same way. In rare cases, colorists embellished entire scenes. More often, they painted only particular elements\u2014a scarlet dress, golden coins, red-orange lava erupting from volcanoes, or fountains glittering in pinks, yellows, and golds. Mistakes were common. In one frame, dye might drip from a woman\u2019s costume across an arm or a leg. In another frame, a yellow face might revert to black and white, or a brush stroke might slip outside its edges.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Paradoxically, our definition of \u201cdifficult\u201d fiction has remained more or less unchanged since the bloom of modernism nearly a century ago: we look for arcane syntax, twisting sentence structures, vast political symbolism. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.full-stop.net\/2015\/07\/15\/features\/essays\/sam-allingham\/lesser-known-pleasures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shouldn\u2019t difficulty have evolved by this point<\/a>? \u201cWe need difficult books like <em>The Wallcreeper<\/em>: books that refuse to cater to established appetites, that take the risks necessary to reorient our aesthetic and ideological assumptions. Traditional difficulty is an oxymoronic and empty concept, but truly difficult novels should be praised to the skies, especially considering the political obstacles keeping so many of them from the audiences they deserve.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A new edition of <em>Green Hills of Africa<\/em>\u2014Hemingway\u2019s chronicle of hunting big game in Africa, first published in 1935\u2014reminds of his talents as a stylist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/18\/hemingway-s-messy-legacy-gets-messier.html\" target=\"_blank\">his bizarre, almost religious fascination with the rituals of killing<\/a>: \u201cif I killed it cleanly,\u201d he writes, \u201cthey all had to die and my interference in the nightly and the seasonal killing that went on all the time was very minute and I had no guilty feeling at all.\u201d And he was such a nice guy, too.<\/li>\n<li>Today in thought experiments come to life: <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/222205\/a-social-experiment-a-k-pop-boy-band-with-no-koreans\/?wt=2\" target=\"_blank\">What if you took a K-pop band and removed the <em>K<\/em> from the equation<\/a>? A new project called I\u2019m Making a Boy Band\u2014think <em>This Is Spinal Tap<\/em>, but with more social commentary and better teeth\u2014has created EXP, the first K-pop band with zero Asian members. The group poses questions \u201cabout nationhood, cultural appropriation, and gender roles.\u201d \u201cWe get lots of comments saying, Your boys haven\u2019t worked, or, Your boys haven\u2019t endured the training process \u2026 We get comments from fans saying, Your boys are gay. In more Western-centric countries, K-pop is seen as flamboyant. The understanding is that if you\u2019re a K-pop fan, you\u2019re used to this soft look. But suddenly, when non-Asians do it, it\u2019s seen as very strange.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its early days, America decided to differentiate itself from its oppressors across the pond by giving the language a bit of a face-lift: we borrowed words from other tongues, reclaimed British words that had fallen into disuse, and\u2014this is the really American part\u2014just made a bunch of stuff up. In 1919, H. L. 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