James Monaco
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How To Read A Film, 2000 edition.
James Monaco is an American film critic, author, and educator.
He has written seven books, including How To Read A Film (1977) and American Film Now (1979), and edited four others. He founded Baseline in 1982, an early online database about the entertainment industry, and a forerunner of the IMDb. He has taught at The New School for Social Research, Columbia University, New York University, and the City University of New York. He was a media commentator for Morning Edition on NPR in the 1980s, and has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Christian Science Monitor.
