Graham Petrie (writer)

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

Nonfiction

• 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

• Petrie, Graham (1980). Seahorse. London, UK: Constable. ISBN 9780094637108.
• Petrie, Graham (1996). The Siege. New York, NY: Soho Press. ISBN 9781569470763.^[1]