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.
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 LurieBilly 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 LurieCalled 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 LurieIn order to make certain the Byrd remains Richmond’s Grand Movie Palace for another 85 years and beyond, the Byrd Theatre Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 entity, was formed and arranged to purchase the building. Read More
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