V.F. Perkins on FILM AS FILM

Victor Perkins discusses his ideas and approaches to film aesthetics

Film Studies For Free just got wind of the below videos: seven segments of a truly fascinating interview with V.F. Perkins which took place at the Kino 8 1/2 in Saarbrücken, Germany, and was filmed by Media Art and Design Studiengang.

In the interview, Perkins engagingly discusses his approach to film studies and, in particular, talks about the trajectory of his seminal 1972 book Film as Film. A wonderful resource.

And once you've watched the videos, make sure to check out the listings of links to some of V.F. Perkins work online at the very foot of FSFF's entry.

Technology and Technique

Film as Film

Urgency of Articulation

 Loss and Cinema

Film Criticism

The Rules of the Game

Octave

• V.F. Perkins, 'Same Tune Again! Repetition and Framing in Letter from an Unknown Woman' (originally published in CineAction! no. 52), 16:9, September 2003 
• V.F. Perkins, ' 'Reconsideration: Le Plaisir: "The Mask" and "The Model"', Film Quarterly,  Film Quarterly (Vol. 63, No. 1, Fall 2009)
• V.F. Perkins, 'Moments of Choice', originally published in The Movie, ch. 58, reprinted in Ann Lloyd (ed.), Movie Book of the Fifties, Orbis, 1982; republished online by the Australian journal Rouge (issue 9, 2006)
• V.F. Perkins, 'You only live once', WRAP, Warwick, 2009 
• V.F. Perkins, 'Ian Cameron: a Tribute', MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism, Issue 1, 2010
  
  

Fifteen Film Studies Guest Lectures at the University of Chicago

From the lecture "Desire and Death in Three Films by Max Ophuls" by Laura Mulvey. Delivered April 2009 at Film Studies Center, University of Chicago

Today, Film Studies For Free presents this amazing array of Film Studies taster videos, on a wide range of topics, of talks delivered expertly and engagingly by a whole host of academic and filmmaking stars. The videos embedded above and below are recordings of segments of guest lectures given at the University of Chicago's Film Studies Center. There are fifteen videos online so far. But FSFF recommends you subscribe to the FSC Vimeo channel so that you can catch them as new ones are posted.

From the lecture "Brokeback Mountain: Primal Scenes on American Screens" by Linda Williams. Presented May, 2009 at Film Studies Center, University of Chicago.

From the lecture "ARTISTS AND MODELS (1955): Modernism, Medium-Specificity, and Mayhem" by Miriam Hansen, delivered in May 2009 at the University of Chicago, Film Studies Center.

Michael Snow introducing his live performance of Hollis Frampton's "A Lecture" at the symposium "Critical Mass: The Legacy of Hollis Frampton" at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center. Feb 5, 2010.

Tom Gunning introducing Frampton's film "Gloria" (1979), on the opening night of the symposium "Critical Mass: The Legacy of Hollis Frampton" at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center, on Feb 5, 2010.

An excerpt from the lecture “Predator-Prey: Cinema, Nature, Ecology” by Hanna Rose Shell, delivered as the keynote of the "Cinema, Nature, Ecology" Conference, April 2009, University of Chicago Film Studies Center.

From a Fall 2008 appearance by Cheryl Dunye, director of Watermelon Woman and the upcoming film Owls, at the Univ of Chicago Film Studies Center.

From talk/screening "Immodest Objects and Fetish Subjects" by Sasha Waters Freyer, delivered at Film Studies Center, University of Chicago in November 2008.

From the lecture "Radical Politics and Experimental Film in Spain: Los Encuentros de Pamplona (1972)" by Vicente Benet, delivered at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center on April 22, 2010.

From the lecture "Quilombo and Utopia: The Aesthetic of Labor in Brazilian Documentary", presented by Salomé Skvirsky at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center on Feb 19, 2010.

From a discussion with Haskell Wexler and Judy Hoffman following a screening of 'Medium Cool' at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center on May 27, 2010.

Yuri Norstein at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center, January 25, 2010. Interpretation by Yuri Tsivian.

From the lecture "To Give Birth According to Sade and Pasolini's SALÓ" by Armando Maggi. Delivered November 19, 2009 at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center

From the lecture "The Unadapted: Warner Bros. Reads Zora Neale Hurston" by Elizabeth Binggeli, presented in February 2009 at the Film Studies Center, University of Chicago.

Carolee Schneemann at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center in November 2008.

On Pleasure: free Perkins in new Film Quarterly

Image from Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952)

Thanks to The Auteurs Daily, Film Studies For Free heard about the new issue of Film Quarterly (Vol. 63, No. 1, Fall 2009) which comes with a wonderful, freely-accessible article by V.F.Perkins: 'Reconsideration: Le Plaisir: "The Mask" and "The Model"'. It's a fabulously illustrated study of Max Ophüls’s 1952 film Le Plaisir, an adaptation of three short stories by Guy de Maupassant: 'Le Masque', 'La Maison Tellier', and 'Le Modèle'.

Other freely-accessible items in this issue include: Rob White, 'Editor's Notebook: Against Nature'; Joshua Clover, 'Marx and Coca-Cola: The Future in Labor'; Danny Birchall, 'Talking Point: The Avant-Garde Archive Online'