Some film scholars have argued that movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s were able to create more nuanced performances than today’s stars because their movies were filmed in black and white, a medium that foregrounded an actor’s facial expressions. In a 2011 study, however, psychologist Scott T. Allison and his colleagues found that viewers rated the performances of actors in color films as more nuanced than the performances of actors in the same films that had been digitally converted to black and white. Therefore, the film scholars’ argument is .
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supported by the results of Allison’s study.
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disproven by the results of Allison’s study.
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based on a misconception about the film industry in the 1930s and 1940s.
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based on a misunderstanding of how actors create nuanced performances.