{"id":832,"date":"2017-05-16T13:06:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/lifelongexchange\/?p=832"},"modified":"2017-05-16T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:08:34","slug":"instructor-spotlight-katie-muldoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/lifelongexchange\/2017\/05\/16\/instructor-spotlight-katie-muldoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructor Spotlight: Katie Muldoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katie Muldoon<\/p><\/div>\n

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  1. With a background in marketing, you founded The Muldoon Agency in New York City. What inspired you to become passionate about films, especially foreign films? Why have you decided to teach in this phase of your life?<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In my era, women\u2019s career choices were generally nursing or teaching and, true to form, I planned to teach grammar school children.\u00a0 While attempting to put myself through college at the University of Cincinnati (UC), I followed my artist dad\u2019s footsteps and worked in advertising. Finding advertising a natural fit, I moved, over time, from copywriting to art direction and, finally, in New York City (having left Cincinnati), my own marketing\/advertising company.<\/p>\n

    My love for art films started in Mt. Adams, the bohemian part of Cincinnati perched on one of its seven hills from where you can, literally, walk down the hill to the city. This is where I lived while going to night school at UC and working in advertising. There, a funky, art deco movie house had featured \u201cart films\u201d that at first drew me simply because they were different.\u00a0 But after only a few tastes, my sister and I gorged ourselves on Z, 8 \u00bd, Metropolis, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Belle De Jour, Repulsion<\/em> (I had nightmares for a week), Jules and Jim, The Conformist, La Dolce Vita<\/em> and every international film shown.\u00a0 The dramatic, original graphics, the genuine, gritty, in-depth, fresh stories, the real, not always glamorous, but still extraordinarily appealing actors\u2026this was a whole new level of cinema.<\/p>\n

    In the beginning, it was the graphics that garnered most of my attention.\u00a0 Dad was a superb teacher of art. From the time my sister and I could talk, he explained color, balance and other aspects of art and design to us. In NYC, I had a potpourri of film events where I could find unusual films, from tiny film events where young directors presented their films, sharing the art approach behind their films, to the New York Film Festival with such luminaries as Pedro Almodovar.\u00a0 Plus, there is MOMA with its regular film shows, the tiny Thalia theatre, the Bleecker Street theater \u2013 so many places where one could learn and share knowledge with friends.<\/p>\n

    Now, to keep learning, I watch the extras on the films\/enclosed discs and hunt for documentaries such as \u201cVisions of Light\u201d that explain how light is utilized in film.\u00a0 It is why, in my film classes, I try to share, in addition to information about the country and its traditions, some of the more art-oriented production aspects, such as camera angles, lighting, effects of sound and so forth with attendees, as it adds to the overall film experience.<\/p>\n

    Revisiting my desire to be a teacher, even while I was running my agency in NYC, I still, part of the time, taught marketing both for NYU and the Direct Marketing Association. Eventually, because of an ever-increasing travel schedule, I had to give up much of the teaching. But I missed it.\u00a0 When we moved to the Key West area, I taught for the Literacy Coalition.\u00a0 And, I might do so again in Palm Beach if time ever allows.<\/p>\n

    But right now, I have the opportunity to take another love \u2013 film \u2013 and combine it with my first love \u2013 teaching \u2013 for FAU LLS. To me, the greatest joy for a teacher is to see someone happy with shared knowledge.\u00a0 Often, students tell me how much they have loved a film and what it has meant to them or what they have learned. That is pure magic.<\/p>\n

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    1. This summer, you will present \u201cForeign Films Made Right the First Time.\u201d Give us a glimpse as to what you will cover in this four-week course. What do you hope your students will take away from your presentation and the films?<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \u201cForeign Films Made Right the First Time\u201d uses the fact that superb international films have been redone by an American company, almost always in a less than stellar manner.\u00a0 It is this difference between U.S. films and international films that highlights some of the reasons why my sister and I got the foreign film bug at such a young age.\u00a0 This class will concentrate on the generally greatly superior foreign film but take time to examine the American \u201cknock-off\u201d and note what it is that specifically makes the original better.<\/p>\n

      Due to time considerations, I have constructed a comparison grid for the main class to review; the discussion group will also have clips and a trailer of the \u201cknock-off\u201d film to show the essence of the whole film. The discussion group will spend about a quarter of the time discussing the differences between the two films. The remainder of the time, we will talk about the main, original film as we do in all my classes.<\/p>\n

      Most of the summer films are selected in a more \u201csummer\u201d motif \u2013 thriller-type style rather than the more serious, heavier stories we often have in class.\u00a0 Each film is highly respected, multi- award winning and a prime example of its particular genre.<\/p>\n

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      1. What is your favorite foreign film? Why?<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        The reason I don\u2019t have a favorite foreign film (or a favorite film of any type) is, thankfully, I keep discovering new and even more outstanding films.<\/p>\n

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        Katie Muldoon will teach a four-week course, \u201cForeign Films Made Right the First Time,\u201d starting on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 1 p.m. To register, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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