B. Ruby Rich

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B. Ruby Rich is an American

New Queer Cinema".[2] She is currently the editor of Film Quarterly, a scholarly film journal published by University of California Press
.

Career

Rich began her career in film exhibition as co-founder of the Woods Hole Film Society. In 1973, she became associate director of what is now the Gene Siskel Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago.[3] After working as film critic for the Chicago Reader, she moved to New York City[3] to become the director of the film program for the New York State Council on the Arts, where she worked for a decade. While living in New York City, she began writing for the Village Voice. She then moved to San Francisco, where she began teaching, first at the University of California, Berkeley, and then at UC Santa Cruz. As Professor of Film and Digital Media there, she helped to build the Social Documentation graduate program.

In 2013, Rich accepted the position of Editor in Chief at Film Quarterly. She re-organized its editorial board and re-launched its website with several new features, including the "Quorum" column and video recordings of FQ webinars.[4]

In 2017, the Barbican hosted a season of films and talks to commemorate her career as a film critic, academic and curator.[5]

Rich is now Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz, and lives in San Francisco and Paris. She continues to appear in documentaries for independent filmmakers and television, as well as on selected Criterion releases.

Media appearances

In 1999, Rich appeared as a guest critic on several episodes of Roger Ebert at the Movies.

B. Ruby Rich appears in the 2009 documentary film

auteur theory
.

She appears in the film !Women Art Revolution.[6]

New Queer Cinema and other influences

Rich coined the term "New Queer Cinema" in a 1992 article for the

AIDS epidemic, and address complicated queer subjectivities while importing much needed discussions of race. Rich argued that, although films dealing with these issues can be found in the previous decade, New Queer Cinema broke with the gay liberation ethos that self-representation should remain positive and desirable.[2]

Rich's presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she was an early member of the selection committee; TIFF, where she served as an international programmer in 2002;

film reviews in major national publications, and her commentary on public broadcasting programs such as The World, Independent View, and All Things Considered, have led to her being characterized as a "central figure" in cinema studies and culture.[7]

Publications

Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

The back cover of her

Mädchen in Uniform.

New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut

Mostly an assemblage of Rich's published writing on queer films of the preceding decades, New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut moves from the moment of New Queer Cinema's inception in the early 1990s festival circuit to its Hollywood co-option in the late 1990s to its more recent international impact and European and U.S. mainstreaming. The book includes studies of the films The Watermelon Woman, Go Fish, Milk, as well as the films of Lucrecia Martel and Gregg Araki.

Contributions

Rich was a regular contributor to

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.[8] From 2013 through June 2023, she served as Editor in Chief of the journal, Film Quarterly
, and now serves as Editor at Large.

Awards

Rich received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the

Guadalajara Film Festival presented her with its "Queer Icon" Maguey Award. In 2017, she was honored in London with an event titled "Being Ruby Rich: Film Curation as Advocacy and Activism" that included a study day at Birkbeck College of the University of London and several days of screenings at the Barbican Cinema. http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/birmac/21-june-2017-being-ruby-rich-film-curation-as-advocacy-and-activism/

References

  1. ^ UCSC.edu
  2. ^ a b c Hays, Matthew. "Beyond The Celluloid Closet." Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide 20.4 (2013): 37. Academic Search Complete. Web. April 22, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "University Faculty Page". Film and Digital Media. USC Santa Cruz. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  4. ^ "About". Film Quarterly. 2018-09-14. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  5. ^ "Being Ruby Rich". Barbican.
  6. ^ Anon 2018
  7. ^ Myers, Emma (February 7, 2014). "CriticWire". Profiles in Criticism. CriticWire. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  8. ^ "B. Ruby Rich". Brubyrich.com. N.p., 2016. Web. April 22, 2016.

Further reading

External links

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