Graham Petrie (December 10, 1939 – December 9, 2023) was a Scottish-Canadian academic and writer.[1] He was a literature and film studies professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[2]
Petrie was born in Penang, British Malaya, to Scottish parents and was raised and educated primarily in Scotland.[1] He initially joined McMaster University as a professor of English,[3] with his academic focus evolving toward film during his time with the institution.
In addition to his academic works, Petrie published the novel Seahorse in 1980,[4] and was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1981.[1] In 1996, Soho Press published his second novel The Siege[5] simultaneously with a reissue of Seahorse.[1] He also published the short story "Village Theatre" in John Robert Colombo's 1981 anthology Not to Be Taken at Night.[6]
Petrie died on December 9, 2023, at the age of 83.[7]
Works edit
Nonfiction edit
- Petrie, Graham (1970). The Cinema of François Truffaut. New York, NY: A.S. Barnes. ISBN 9780498076497.[8]
- Petrie, Graham (1981). History Must Answer to Man: The Contemporary Hungarian Cinema (2nd ed.). Budapest, Hungary: Corvina Kiadó. ISBN 9789631313048.[2]
- Petrie, Graham (1985). Hollywood Destinies: European Directors in America, 1922–1931. London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 9780710201614.[9]
- Petrie, Graham; Dwyer, Ruth (1990). Before the Wall Came Down: Soviet and East European Filmmakers Working in the West. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. ISBN 9780819178596.[2]
- Johnston, Vida T.; Petrie, Graham (1994). The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253331373.[2]
Fiction edit
- Petrie, Graham (1980). Seahorse. London, UK: Constable. ISBN 9780094637108.
- Petrie, Graham (1996). The Siege. New York, NY: Soho Press. ISBN 9781569470763.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "Double the impact". Toronto Star, June 17, 1995.
- ^ a b c d Broomer, Stephen (2016). Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442647787.
- ^ "Historian says Bergman one of few authentic movie geniuses". Toronto Star, January 13, 1976.
- ^ "2 first novels take us into fable, myth". Toronto Star, October 24, 1981.
- ^ "16th century fantasy has cruel twist". Toronto Star, January 20, 1996.
- ^ "A serving of chillers for the scary season". The Globe and Mail, October 31, 1981.
- ^ "Graham Petrie". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved December 16, 2023 – via Legacy.com.
- ^ "Wild Child: Truffaut's return to greatness". The Globe and Mail, January 23, 1971.
- ^ "Crossed cultures in Hollywood". The Globe and Mail, February 22, 1986.
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