Graham Petrie (born 1939) is a retired Scottish-Canadian academic and writer,"Double the impact". ''

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'', June 17, 1995. most notably a literature and film studies professor at McMaster University in

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.Stephen Broomer, ''Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board''.

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, 2016. . He was born in

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parents, and was raised and educated primarily in

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. He initially joined McMaster as a professor of English, with his academic focus evolving toward film during his time with the institution. In addition to his academic works he published the novel ''Seahorse'' in 1980, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1981. In 1996,

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published his second novel ''The Siege'' simultaneously with a reissue of ''Seahorse''. He also published the short story "Village Theatre" in

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's 1981 anthology ''Not to Be Taken at Night''.

Works

Nonfiction

*''The Cinema of

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'' (1970)"Wild Child: Truffaut's return to greatness". ''

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'', January 23, 1971. *''History Must Answer to Man: The Contemporary Hungarian Cinema'' (1981) *''Hollywood Destinies: European Directors in America, 1922-1931'' (1986)"Crossed cultures in Hollywood". ''

'', February 22, 1986. *''Before the Wall Came Down: Soviet and East European Filmmakers Working in the West'' (1990) *

Fiction

*''Seahorse'' (1980) *''The Siege'' (1995)

References

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