Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies - V. F. Perkins AUSTRALIAN GRAFFITI showing how deeply skating became

showing how deeply skating became woven into the creative identity of the city itself

Part 2 of 4: Strange Bedfellows

Father Callahan—a priest originally from our world—offers to give Roland a powerful but evil seeing sphere

The narrative doesn’t just focus on conflict

including interviews with emerging artists

Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies - V. F. Perkins AUSTRALIAN GRAFFITI showing how deeply skating becameFirst published in 1972, Film as Film is one of the foundational works of modern film criticism. V. F. Perkins argues that films should be judged primarily on their own artistic terms, examining how meaning is created through the uniquely cinematic elements of image, editing, sound, performance and visual composition rather than by literary or theatrical standards. Challenging simplistic notions of auteur theory and purely ideological criticism,