Description
In film as film V.F. Perkins, himself a film critic, sets out to define what makes a good movie, and to posit some criteria for our judgement of film. He relates theoretical argument to detailed examples from films which achieved to detailed examples from films which achieved both popularity and excellence, including Hitchcock's psycho, preminger's Exodus and Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, and discusses, in each case, the aims and achievements of the director.
In film as film V.F. Perkins, himself a film critic, sets out to define what makes a good movie, and to posit some criteria for our judgement of film. He relates theoretical argument to detailed examples from films which achieved to detailed examples from films which achieved both popularity and excellence, including Hitchcock's psycho, preminger's Exodus and Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, and discusses, in each case, the aims and achievements of the director.