Christian Keathley

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Christian Keathley

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture

Axinn Center at Starr Library 211

Phone: 802.443.3432

Email: ckeathle@middlebury.edu

Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
B.A., M.A., University of Florida. M.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago; Ph.D., Univeristy of Iowa

Christian Keathley teaches courses on film history, film theory and criticism, non-fiction film, film directors (e.g., Howard Hawks, Jean Renoir, Fritz Lang), film and literature, national cinemas (e.g., French New Wave), and video production.

Keathley received a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa (2000) and an M.F.A. in Film Production at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1995). He also holds an M.A. (1993) and a B.A. (1985) in English from the University of Florida.

His critical writings have appeared in Film Comment, Art Papers, and Framework, as well as in the volumes Directed by Allen Smithee, Citizen Sarris, and Screening Disability. He is currently at work on a book about cinephilia.

Keathley's experimental non-fiction film and video work has recently consisted of adaptations of scholarly writings. His 1993 videotape, Clues, began as an adaptation of historian Carlo Ginzburg's essay, "Clues: Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes," but expanded to include a recounting of the events of the Lindbergh kidnapping, as well as a family story.

His 1995 project, Snapshots, which combines projected film and two video monitors running simultaneously, is an adaptation of film historian Robert Ray's essay of the same title. Snapshots has been screened at various venues, including the San Francisco Cinematheque, The North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago.