This was excellently written! I now have some books and articles to add to my library.

We use red in theatre for many of the same applications. From the most basic of concepts we utilize warm white where red is the highest color value to demonstrate scenarios of happiness and joy. We use cool white, where red is the lowest color value to demonstrate moods of cold, loneliness and isolation.

When using deeper warm colors we have on the magenta side of red concepts like childhood, cuteness, and as you get closer to red, you have sexual passion and on to violence. Heading towards orange violence becomes heat, like that of a brightly-burning coal-furnace or fire, and on towards yellow where it can be the late afternoon sun signaling the end of a hard day's work.

Of course these color-ideas are mixed and matched with other color concepts to create a scenic space that can add to the intensity of a scene, like the young hungry child dressed in blue sneaking through the cool moonlight shining down one half of a living room, while a threatening abusive parent figure faces away towards a bright terrifying orange fireplace.

I also frequently utilize red to express low-frequency tones when performing music visualizations for events.