There is also the issue of heightened colour.
He takes Sirk's style of heightened colour, romantic music and slightly larger-than-life acting to recreate the Fifties with affection and understanding.
In 1777 he exhibited at the Royal Academy the well-known Mrs. Graham, C.F. Abel, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, all deliberately glamorous and painted in richly heightened colour.
There is desperation in all this too, but it is the now-familiar desperation of the self-indulgently confessional: Nan Goldin without the brilliant composition, the heightened colour or the underlying poetic sadness.
Panels of hammered and pierced iron, heightened with colours and gilding, were used in connection with domestic architecture; and many doors were ornamented with elaborate nailheads or embossed studs.
This is an old-fashioned, three-act, state-of-the-nation play written with a modern sensibility, vicious humour and in cartoonishly heightened, almost DayGlo colours.
Many successful stage musicals have become additionally popular through the medium of motion pictures, but music as a basic element in filmmaking has gained recognition only since midcentury as something more than a means to heighten local colour or intensify emotional expression.
Nothing!" Red Hook Summer is typically stylised, with Lee's trademark heightened sense of colour and sound.
In these works he strove to respect the external, visual aspect of a figure or landscape but found himself unable to suppress his own feelings about the subject, which found expression in emphatic contours and heightened effects of colour.
The main work was the Fifth Symphony, and while it was obviously a young man's performance, with every colour heightened and every emotional shift consciously underlined, Franck also mapped the symphony's structure in a graphic and totally satisfying way.
