Jensen, Paul M. 1944- (Paul Morris Jensen)

PERSONAL:

Born January 11, 1944, in Greenport, NY; son of Christian (a mariner) and Emily (a teacher) Jensen. Education: State University of New York at Albany, B.A., 1965; Columbia University, M.F.A., 1966; further graduate study at State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969, and New York University, 1973, 1974.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Oneonta, NY. Office—Department of Communication Arts, State University of New York College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820. E-mail—jensenpm@oneonta.edu.

CAREER:

High school teacher of English, 1966-67; State University of New York College at Oneonta, Oneonta, instructor, 1967-70, assistant professor, beginning 1970, currently professor of film.

WRITINGS:

The Cinema of Fritz Lang, A.S. Barnes (San Diego, CA), 1969.

Boris Karloff and His Films, A.S. Barnes (San Diego, CA), 1974.

The Men Who Made the Monsters, Twayne (New York, NY), 1996.

Hitchcock Becomes Hitchcock: The British Years, Midnight Marquee Press (Baltimore, MD), 2000.

Contributor to books, including The Sound Film, edited by Arthur Lennig, Walter Snyder (Troy, NY), 1969; The Hollywood Screenwriter, edited by Richard Corliss, Avon (New York, NY), 1972; The Classic Cinema: Essays in Criticism, edited by Stanley J. Solomon, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1973; Masterworks of the German Cinema, Harper (New York, NY), 1974; and Boris Karloff, edited by Gary Svehla and Susan Svehla, Midnight Marquee Press, 1996. Contributor to periodicals, including Variety, Phantasm, Video Watchdog, Scarlet Street, Films in Review, Film Heritage, and Film Comment.

SIDELIGHTS:

Paul M. Jensen once informed CA that he appeared as an interview subject in a documentary about Merian C. Cooper that accompanied the 2005 DVD release of the 1933 film King Kong. Between 1999 and 2002 he also appeared in documentary films that accompanied the Universal Studios DVD releases of the films Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein, the 1943 film The Phantom of the Opera, and Creature from the Black Lagoon. He added: "I also wrote and recorded the film-long secondary audio track commentary for the DVD release of The Mummy."