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Peter Lurie

Peter Lurie is an Associate Professor of English and the Coordinator for the Film Studies Program at University of Richmond. He has taught at Oxford University, where he was a Fellow at Keble College (2003-05), and at Harvard in the History and Literature program (2001-03). His teaching and research interests include William Faulkner, Film Studies, nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, and Modernism. He has taught courses in the English Department at Richmond on Faulkner’s major fiction, twentieth century American poetry, American genre cinema, and literature and film, as well as general education and introductory courses on American literature and on cinema.

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    March is for Malick

    Terrence Malick films have been released at widely different points and to wild, at times rhapsodic praise. His first two releases, Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) ...

    On February 25, 2018 / By Peter Lurie
  • Barbara Stanwyck hides behind door in classic film noir Double Indemnity
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    Double Indemnity: A Film Noir Classic

      Billy Wilder’s 1944 Double Indemnity is one of the “grand-dads” of the wonderfully rich film noir genre. This picture has all the classic film noir elements: a ...

    On November 15, 2017 / By Peter Lurie
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    “2001: A Space Odyssey” is the Ultimate Trip

    Called the “ultimate trip” on its 1968 release, and displaying what one critic called the most audacious cut in film history, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey still merits ...

    On June 12, 2017 / By Peter Lurie

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