James Monaco

James Monaco ( * 1943 in Flushing, New York) is an American film historian, critic, author and publisher.

Life

Monaco taught at Columbia University and at the City University of New York. He was as a film lecturer at the New School for Social Research worked since 1967. During this time, Monaco created the book How to Read a Film, which appeared in 1977. It was followed by three more editions in 1980, 1999 and 2008. In 1980, it appeared, published and edited by Hans- Michael Bock, under the title Film understood in German language in the revised and expanded editions (1980, 1995, 2000, 2009). The standard work was inter alia also into Dutch, Italian, Czech and Turkish and translated into Chinese ( unlicensed ), Japanese and Korean. 2001 Monaco brought out a multimedia edition, which contained, besides the books How to Read a Film and Dictionary of New Media also two major anthologies of texts on film and media.

In 1982, Monaco founded under the name of baseline an online database on the entertainment industry. Baseline was acquired in 2006 by The New York Times Company. In 1992 he founded the UNET 2 Corporation, of which he is since then as CEO.

In its publisher Electronic Publishing Harbour with the head office in New York and Sag Harbor, he published alongside its own subjects including 2011, Exploring the Other Iceland. A seasonal guide to nature on Long Iceland by John Turner.

Publications

• The New Wave. Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette. 1976
• How to Read a Film. Movies, Media, and Beyond. Oxford University Press, London / New York 1977 German edition: James Monaco, Hans- Michael Bock (ed.): Film understand. Art, technology, language, history and theory of film and new media. With an introduction to multimedia. Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2009 ( translated by Hans- Michael Bock, Wester Brigitte Meier, Robert Wohlleben ), ISBN 978-3499625381. (5th revised and enlarged edition ).

• German edition: James Monaco, Hans- Michael Bock: Film understand. The lexicon. The most important technical terms for film and new media. Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3499626678. ( New edition of Film and New Media. Dictionary of Technical Terms, 2000).