Patrick Keating is an assistant professor of Communication at Trinity University. He teaches courses in film studies and video production. He serves as the Chair of the interdisciplinary minor in Film Studies.

He earned a B.A. (Film Studies) from Yale University, a M.F.A. (Film Production) from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. (Communication Arts) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. David Bordwell advised his dissertation on the history of Hollywood cinematography. He is a native of Los Angeles, California.

He is the author of Hollywood Lighting From the Silent Era to Film Noir (Columbia University Press, Film and Culture Series). Hollywood Lighting was selected by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) as the Best First Book in 2011. The title was a finalist for the Richard Wall Memorial Award presented by the Theatre Library Association (2010). Additional publications have appeared in Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, Aura, The Journal of Screenwriting, Film International, and Scope. His essay "From the Portrait to the Close-Up" received the 2003 Society of Cinema and Media Studies student writing award. 

Dr. Keating has been named a 2010 Academy Film Scholar to support his second book, tentatively titled, A Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classic Hollywood Film.

His areas of research and teaching include film history and style, Hollywood cinema, narrative theory, aesthetic philosophy, international cinema, cinematography, and film noir. He has presented at a number of national and international conferences.

He has previously served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford University, and Hofstra University.

Among many, his two favorite movies are The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) and The Third Man (Reed, 1949).

You can read Dr. Keating's profile from Trinity University here.