Peter Vronsky
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| Born | Toronto, Ontario |
| Occupation | Author, historian, film director, professor |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | PhD in espionage in international relations and criminal justice history |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Genre | True crime, military history |
| Subject | Serial killers, history, international relations |
| Notable works | Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004), Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters (2007), Ridgeway: The American-Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle that made Canada (2011) |
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Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker and investigative historian. He holds a PhD in criminal justice history and espionage in international relations from the University of Toronto. He is the author of a bestseller true crime history Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004) and Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters and the director of several feature films, including Bad Company (1980) and Mondo Moscow (1992). He is the creator of a substantial body of formal video and electronic art works and new media. He has also worked professionally in the motion picture and television industry as a producer and cinematographer in the field of documentary production and news broadcasting with CNN, CTV, CBC, RAI and other global television networks in North America and overseas. Vronsky's most recent book was published in 2011, Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada, a controversial new history of Canada's first modern battle - the Battle of Ridgeway fought against Irish American Fenian insurgents who invaded across the border from the United States on the eve of Canadian Confederation shortly after the American Civil War. He currently lectures at Ryerson University's History Department in the history of international relations, terrorism, American Civil War, Third Reich, and new military history.
Film writer for magazine Cinema Canada and University of Toronto's The Varsity; Member of Toronto Filmmakers Coop; University of Toronto Film Board (Hart House); studied with Canadian film directors Don Shebib, Clarke Mackey, and Peter Pearson; dropped out of University of Toronto at the end of his second year to pursue filmmaking full-time; wrote and directed two thirty-minute short drama films starring Paul Young from the Cardboard Brains: American Nights (1976) and The Sheep-Eaters (1977); Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council Grants; directed and produced thirty-minute music documentary special on punk rock for CBC television Crash'n'Burn (Dada's Boys) (1977) with the Viletones, Teenage Head, Dishes, The Ramones and The Deadboys, filmed at CBGB in New York and the New Yorker Theater and Crash'n’Burn in Toronto. (Not to be confused with Ross McLaren's independent Crash 'n' Burn made the same year on the same subject. Produced and directed feature film, Bad Company (1980). Assistant-Director on Canadian feature films: Nothing Personal (1979), The Last Chase (1979) and Screwballs (1981). Vronsky frequently collaborated with documentary filmmaker Peter Lynch (director) on Video Culture International projects and with horror film director Tibor Takacs who before he left for Hollywood worked as a D.O.P. and Art Director on several Vronsky films.
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