1978-2004: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Film Studies

Present: Visiting Professor in Film Studies

Contact Details

Department of Film and Television Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL UK

Tel: +44 24 7652 2511
Fax:+44 24 7652 4757

Email: V.F.Perkins@warwick.ac.uk

Research Profile

My main academic aim is to develop a deeper and more clearly articulated appreciation of the work of some great film artists. I have a continuing engagement with films by, for instance, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Max Ophuls, Yasujiro Ozu, Nicholas Ray, Jean Renoir and Orson Welles. My critical commitments involve me also in research into aesthetics and into issues in the theory of film criticism. I teach in these areas, with a particular concentration on the analysis of style in the fiction movie.

Publications include

• Film as Film, Penguin Books, 1972.
• The Magnificent Ambersons, British Film Institute, 1999.
• "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 (ed.), The Movie Book of the Western, Studio Vista, 1996.
• "I Confess - Photographs of People Speaking" in CineAction No 52, September 2000.
• "Letter from an Unknown Woman" [on the Linz sequence] in MOVIE 29/30, Summer 1982
• "Ophuls contra Wagner and Others" in MOVIE No 36, January 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, Style and meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film, Manchester U.P., 2005.