Dr Claire Perkins - Researcher Profile

Biography

I have a background in cultural studies and cinema studies, and hold a BA (Hons) and PhD from Monash University. My PhD research on American commercial-independent filmmaking is to be published as the book American Smart Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2011) and my interest in film serialization and reception is reflected in my co-editor roles on the forthcoming collections Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan) and B for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value (Wayne State UP). My research has also appeared in the international journals The Velvet Light Trap, Cinemascope and Rhizomes.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2009

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN MEDIA SALES

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2004

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2001

Publications

Books

Perkins, C.E., 2012, American Smart Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK.

Perkins, C.E., Verevis, C.E. (eds), 2012, Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches, Palgrave MacMillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Perkins, C.E., Verevis, C.E. (eds), 2012, Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Perkins, C.E., Verevis, C.E. (eds), 2012, Film trilogies: New critical approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.

Book Chapters

Perkins, C., 2012, Heath Ledger: I'm not there, in Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s, eds Murray Pomerance, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick New Jersey USA, pp. 147-165.

Perkins, C.E., Verevis, C.E., 2012, Introduction: Three times, in Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches, eds Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, pp. 1-31.

Perkins, C.E., 2012, The Scre4m trilogy, in Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches, eds Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 88-108.

Perkins, C.E., Verevis, C.E., 2012, Three Times, in Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches, eds Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 1-31.

Perkins, C., 2010, Sequelizing Hollywood: The American 'smart' film, in Second takes, Critical approaches to the film sequel, eds Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis, SUNY Press, United States, pp. 87-104.

Journal Articles

Perkins, C., Verevis, C.E., 2010, Documenting Filmmakers, Studies in Documentary Film [P], vol 4, issue 2, Intellect, Ltd., Bristol, UK, pp. 205-208.

Perkins, C., 2010, In treatment: The Five Obstructions, Studies in Documentary Film [P], vol 4, issue 2, Intellect Ltd, Bristol, United Kingdom, pp. 149-158.

Vassilieva, I., Perkins, C.E., 2009, Introduction: B for bad cinema, Colloquy: Text Theory Critique [E], vol 18, Monash University, Clayton Vic, Australia, pp. 5-15.

Perkins, C., 2008, Becoming-democratic: Donnie Darko and other recent suburban utopias, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, vol Summer 08, issue 16, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio, p. 0.

Perkins, C., 2008, Remaking and the film trilogy: Whit Stillman's authorial triptych, The Velvet Light Trap, vol Spring 08, issue 61, University of Texas at Austin, Austin Texas USA, pp. 14-26.

Perkins, C., 2006, Elizabeth Grosz The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely (review), Colloquy: Text Theory Critique [E], vol May 2006, issue 11, Monash University, Clayton vic Australia, pp. 247-250.

Perkins, C., 2006, Nicholas Rombes (ed) New Punk Cinema (review), Senses of Cinema [P], vol Apr-Jun 06, issue 39, Senses of Cinema Inc., Australia, p. 0.

Perkins, C., 2005, Gabrielle Murrary This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah (review), Senses of Cinema [P], vol Oct-Dec 05, issue 37, Senses of Cinema Inc., Australia, p. 0.

Perkins, C., 2004, This time it's personal: Laura U. Marks Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (review), Senses of Cinema [P], vol Oct-Dec 04, issue 33, Senses of Cinema Inc., Australia, p. 0.

Perkins, C., 2000, Cinephilia and monstrosity: the problem of cinema in Deleuze's Cinema books, Senses of Cinema [P], vol Jul-Aug 00, issue 8, Senses of Cinema Inc., Australia, p. 0.

Other

Perkins, C.E., 2009, Lost in decryption: female subjectivity in the films of Olivier Assayas, Cinemascope: Independent Film Journal, Emanuele Tammaro, Naples, Italy.

Perkins, C.E., 2009, Modern European Masters, Beginner's Guide to Cinema 3, vol other, Madman Entertainment, Collingwood, Victoria.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"A Woman Did That?": Violence, Subjectivity & Gender in Commercial Art Cinema.

Supervisors:

Smaill, B (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Girl interrupted, girls in-between: Queer teen temporality and queer girl screen culture..

Supervisors:

Davis, T (Main), Khoo, O (Associate), Perkins, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Is there a Baudrillardian film philosophy?.

Supervisors:

Verevis, C (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Nature and technology in the films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Supervisors:

Martin, A (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Pleasure and Displeasure: The Innovation of Long Form Television Narrative.

Supervisors:

Perkins, C (Main), Williams, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Science fiction adaptations: from novel to film and back.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Television and adaptation studies.

Supervisors:

Verevis, C (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The unexplained film music moment.

Supervisors:

Williams, D (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Rubin, M.

Program of Study:

Reality Regained: A Baudrillardian Reading of Ballard's Crash and Dumont's Twentynine Palms. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).