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Dept. of Media & Theatre Arts
MSU - Bozeman
P.O. Box 173350
Bozeman, MT 59717-3350

mta@montana.edu


Tel: (406) 994-2484

Fax: (406) 994-6214

Location: Visual Communications Building at the corner of 11th & Grant

Interim Head: Walter Metz

Department of Media & Theatre Arts
Paul Monaco

Paul Monaco
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1974
Professor; Film & TV History & Theory and MPVT Production

Office: 217 VCB
Phone: 994-6225
monaco@montana.edu


Course Materials:

MTA 101 Fall 0' Syllabus

MTA101 Lecture 1
MTA101 Lecture 2
MTA101 Lecture 3
MTA101 Lecture 4
MTA101 Lecture 5
MTA101 Lecture 6
MTA101 Lecture 7
MTA101 Lecture 8
MTA101 Lecture 9
MTA101 Lecture 10
MTA101 Lecture 11
MTA101 Lecture 12
MTA101 Lecture 13
MTA101 Lecture 14
MTA101 Lecture 15


MTA 253 Spring Semester Topics
MTA 253 Spring Semester Guidelines
MTA 253 Lecture Topics

MTA 400 Professional Perspectives Seminar


Current Research/Creativity:

  • In Print, Book: The Sixties, 1960-1969, in The History of American Cinema Series, University of California Press, paperback, May, 2003 
    (ISBN 0-520-23804-4)
  • Completed, Introducing Positive Psychology" Film (with Dennis Aig and Rick Rosenthal), a one-hour documentary on this contemporary movement led by Martin E.P. Seligman, George Vaillant, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Recently shown on PBS; soon available on internet or as a DVD through Allyn and Bacon/Longman
  • In Progress, Book: Hollywood In America: The Essential History of the Movies

Awards and Achievements:

  • Cox Family Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching
  • Honorable Mention, the 33rd Annual Festival of Short Film & Video
  • Grand Jury Nomination, Best Experimental Short, Bare Bones Film Festiva
  • Advisory Board Member, the History of the American Cinema Project
  • Wiley Award for Meritorious Research
  • National Fine Arts Video Competition Award of Merit
  • Montana Film & Video Festival Best Experimental Non-Commercial Film
  • Montana Broadcaster's Assn. Best Non-Commercial Radio or TV Program
  • Fulbright Professorships to Germany (twice)
  • Chamber of Commerce/Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award (three times)
  • American Library Association Selection Outstanding Academic Book (Ribbons in Time)
  • Who's who in the West, 1993 to present
  • Who's who in America, 1995 to present
  • Who's who in the World, 1995 to present
  • Cox Award for Creative Scholarship & Teaching
  • Annenberg Public Policy Committee Civic Engagement Project Board Member Fulbright Senior Awards Selection Committee Member for Germany/Austria Fulbright Senior Specialists Selection Committee Member (Dance, Film, Theatre)

Course Materials:

MTA 101 Fall 0' Syllabus

MTA101 Lecture 1
MTA101 Lecture 1
MTA101 Lecture 1
MTA101F Studio System/Studio Style
MTA101F Production Code& Classic Hollywood
MTA101F Classic Hollywood, Studio System, and 'Auteur' Creativity
MTA101F World War II and The Cinema
MTA101F Film Noir
MTA101F Post-War Cinema & The Cold WarR
MTA101F Transition In The 1950s
MTA101F Method Acting & Emerging 'Realism' In Cinema
MTA101F The Cinema of Sensation
MTA101F The Conglomerates and the Counter-Culture
MTA101F Blockbuster or Event Film, & Hollywood High Concept
MTA101F Movie Brats, 'Auteurism,' and Independent Film
MTA101F Ancillaries and Alternatives
MTA101F Into Cinema's Second Century

MTA 253 Spring Semester Topics
MTA 253 Spring Semester Guidelines
MTA 253 Lecture Topics

MTA 400 Professional Perspectives Seminar


Current Research/Creativity:

  • In Print, Book: The Sixties, 1960-1969, in The History of American Cinema Series, University of California Press, paperback, May, 2003 
    (ISBN 0-520-23804-4)
  • Completed, Introducing Positive Psychology" Film (with Dennis Aig and Rick Rosenthal), a one-hour documentary on this contemporary movement led by Martin E.P. Seligman, George Vaillant, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Recently shown on PBS; soon available on internet or as a DVD through Allyn and Bacon/Longman
  • In Progress, Book: Hollywood In America: The Essential History of the Movies

Awards and Achievements:

  • Cox Family Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching
  • Honorable Mention, the 33rd Annual Festival of Short Film & Video
  • Grand Jury Nomination, Best Experimental Short, Bare Bones Film Festiva
  • Advisory Board Member, the History of the American Cinema Project
  • Wiley Award for Meritorious Research
  • National Fine Arts Video Competition Award of Merit
  • Montana Film & Video Festival Best Experimental Non-Commercial Film
  • Montana Broadcaster's Assn. Best Non-Commercial Radio or TV Program
  • Fulbright Professorships to Germany (twice)
  • Chamber of Commerce/Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award (three times)
  • American Library Association Selection Outstanding Academic Book (Ribbons in Time)
  • Who's who in the West, 1993 to present
  • Who's who in America, 1995 to present
  • Who's who in the World, 1995 to present
  • Cox Award for Creative Scholarship & Teaching
  • Annenberg Public Policy Committee Civic Engagement Project Board Member Fulbright Senior Awards Selection Committee Member for Germany/Austria Fulbright Senior Specialists Selection Committee Member (Dance, Film, Theatre)

Professional Interests:
  • Film/Video/Television History and Theory
  • Film Education
  • Film/Video/Television Production

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