V.F. Perkins

V.F. Perkins

Victor F. Perkins (born 1936 in Devon) is an academic, best-known for his work on film interpretation. He has taught at the University of Warwick since 1978.

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"The British Cinema" in MOVIE No.1, 1962

"Why Preminger?" in MOVIE No. 4 (November 1962)

The Cinema of Nicholas Ray," MOVIE No. 9, May 1963., reprinted in Ian Cameron (ed.), Movie Reader, New York, 1972, and in Bill Nicholls (ed.), Movies and Methods Vol 1, California, 1976.

"55 Days at Peking" in MOVIE No. 11.

"Cheyenne Autumn" in MOVIE No. 12, Spring 1965.

"Supporting the British Cinema" in MOVIE No. 16, Winter, 1968-1969.

"America, America" MOVIE No. 19, Winter, 1971-1972

"Film as Film", Penguin Books, 1972.

"Moments of Choice" in The Movie, ch. 58, reprinted in Ann Lloyd (ed.), Movie Book of the Fifties, Orbis, 1982.

"Letter from an Unknown Woman" [on the Linz sequence] in MOVIE 29/30, Summer 1982

"Must We Say What They Mean ? Film criticism and interpretation" in MOVIE No. 34, October 1990

"Film Authorship - the premature burial" in CineAction, No. 21/22, November, 1990

"In a Lonely Place" in Ian Cameron (ed.), The Movie Book of Film Noir, Studio Vista, 1992

"Johnny Guitar", in Ian Cameron & Douglas Pye (eds.), The Movie Book of the Western, Studio Vista, 1996.

"The Magnificent Ambersons", British Film Institute, 1999.

"Ophuls contra Wagner and Others" in MOVIE No 36, January 2000.

"I Confess - Photographs of People Speaking" in CineAction No 52, September 2000.

"'Same Tune Again!' - Repetition and Framing in Letter from an Unknown Woman " in CineAction No 52, September 2000.

“Where is the world? The horizon of events in movie fiction” in John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (eds.), Style and meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film, Manchester U.P., 2005.

For an in-depth examination of Perkins' career, see: Jeffrey Crouse, "Fueled by Enthusiasms: Jeffrey Crouse Interviews V. F. Perkins," "Film International", 2004:3, pp. 14-27.


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