Word: petric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Vladimir K. Petric (called by everyone "Vlada") enters the Carpenter Center lecture hall on May 2 for what is to be the last lecture of his five-year career as Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of Film Studies. Of the 180 students enrolled in the course, nine are present. By the end of the lecture, six more will have arrived. A puzzled girl distributes Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide Course Evaluation sheets for next year's publication, but Professor Petric informs her with a trace of exasperation, that both he and the course will depart after this lecture...
Makavejev--"Mak," as his fellow Yugoslavian professor Vlada Petric calls him--has had a standing invitation to teach at Harvard for three years, largely because of the reputation he built for himself with such award-winning feature films as "Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator," "Innocence Unprotected," "W/R: Mysteries of the Organism," "Sweet Movie," and "Man is Not a Bird...
...Petric has been the director of the Academy of Theater/Radio/Film and Television at Belgrade University in Yugoslavia. During the past year he has also served as the Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Museum of Modern Art's Film Study Center in New York...
...Petric is the author of several books on film. His works include The Magic Screen, Film and Reality, Introduction to the Film, and The Evolution of Film Genres. He has also written a book on television entitled Television: The Eighth Power...
...addition to writing, Petric has made and acted in several films, several of which appeared last Friday on WCVB's "Screening Room...