"This thesis ... examines colour as the hues we perceive in everyday activities and their social significance when used deliberately in representation ... investigations have led into psychological, anthropological, philosophical and cultural realms to uncover colour 'knowledge' and from there to semiology, representation and feminism in search of the tools with which to expose colour to a sociological analysis. What follows in this thesis is that journey, colour use examined in respect of its marking of gender attributes in a major social reproducer of these concepts, popular narrative film"--Abstract.