Patricia Eliot Tobias
 Patricia Eliot Tobias is an internationally known film and
television historian based in Los Angeles. The president of the
nonprofit International Buster Keaton Society, Inc., she has been a
consultant, audio commentator and on-camera expert for numerous
television and DVD documentaries. In addition, she is the
vice-president of the board of directors of Rx Laughter, a nonprofit
organization studying the health benefits of laughter.
Professionally, she has written, edited and/or designed for The
New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Daily Variety,
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the
Writers Guild of America West, Oxford University Press
and John Wiley and Sons, among others. A contributing author
for Leonard Maltin’s Family Film Guide, Tobias also wrote
biographical material for allmovie.com. Earlier in her career, she
taught communication science at the University of Connecticut, and
was a film instructor for the JASA Arts Series for Senior Citizens
in New York City. More recently Patricia has been a guest lecturer
at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy, the University of Southern
California, the Hamptons International Film Festival, Cinecon, and
the Silver Lake Film Festival.
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