Title:     Associate Professor
Office:   Xavier Hall 337
Phone:  310-338-7361
E-mail: pconnolly@lmu.edu

Areas of Specialization
History of Mass Media
Issues in Mass Media
Mass Media Theories
Effects of Mass Media

Education
PhD Film University of So. California (1973)
MA Theology St. Josephs College (Dublin) (1967)
MA Philosophy St. Louis University (1960)
MA Education St. Louis University (1960)
BA English  St. Louis University (1957)

Biography
Patrick Connolly, a member of the Department of Film and Television Studies, has been a faculty member at LMU for thirty five years.  He believes strongly that human communication has involved many revolutions, but only three  super-revolutions. Precisely when human beings evolved to the point of using spoken languages, the first super-revolution, is hidden in the mists of time.  However, there is abundance of evidence that a mere five thousand years  ago human beings launched the second super-revolution with written languages which vastly altered cultures.  He believes that the third super-revolution came at the end of the nineteenth century with what he calls:  "the language of multiple moving images."  In addition to being a professor, he is also a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the religious order, the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola.