B Ruby Rich
· ProfessorUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · Film and Digital Media
Active 1924–2024
About
B Ruby Rich is a Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, specializing in Social Documentation within the graduate program. She is also the Editor of Film Quarterly, the oldest film journal in the United States. Rich has a long history in film festival curating, museum exhibition, and public philanthropy before entering academia, and she continues to participate in panels and juries at major film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, and Provincetown. Her research interests include documentary film, global cinema, American independent film, Latin American cinema, the essay film tradition, women's and feminist filmmaking, New Queer Cinema, and LGBT film history. Rich is the author of two books published by Duke University Press: 'New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut' (1998) and 'Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement' (1998). She has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Career Service Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, a Mellon Fellowship in the Arts at Columbia University, a Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities at NYU, and the Frameline Award for contributions to LGBT culture. She was featured as one of the 25 most important women film critics in the British Film Institute's journal, Sight and Sound, and was honored with a retrospective titled 'Being Ruby Rich' at the Barbican Center and Birkbeck College in London. In 2018, she was elected a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Documentary Branch. Her expertise encompasses film criticism and history, curating, radio and television commentary, film festival involvement, journalism, and scholarly analysis of various cinema traditions. She has contributed to film commentary for NPR, CBC, and the BBC, and has hosted programs on IFC and Sundance channels. Rich has also provided commentary for numerous documentaries and appeared on television with Roger Ebert. Her research and teaching focus on social documentation, feminist film, new queer cinema, Latin American film, and the politics of film consumption, including film festivals and cinephilia.
Awards & honors
- Distinguished Career Service Award by the Society of Cinema…
- Mellon Fellowship in the Arts at Columbia University
- Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities by New York Univers…
- National Endowment for the Arts critics award
- James Brudner Memorial Award from Yale University
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