Description: The collected shorter film criticism of one of the most brilliant English-language film critics.
Brief description: Douglas Pye is senior visiting research fellow in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. His publications include The Long Take: Critical Approaches and Style and Meaning: Studies in the Detailed Analysis of Film (both co-edited with John Gibbs), 100 Film Musicals (with Jim Hillier), and Movies and Tone. He co-edits the series Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television and is a member of the editorial board of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.
Review Quotes:
V.F. Perkins (1936-2016) was a central figure in the evolution of film studies, and the assortment of essays gathered for V. F. Perkins on Movies certainly lives up to the book's promotion as a collection making it "possible to see his writing as a coherent body of work, developed over a long career, and to appreciate its great historical and cultural significance."
--Jeremy Carr "Film International"