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Name: B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming"
Start: 2016-02-10T12:00:00-08:00
End: 2016-02-10T13:30:00-08:00
Location: Stevenson Fireside Lounge

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B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming"

February 10, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Stevenson Fireside Lounge

Free

The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich.

Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and Chantal Akerman.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:

January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”

January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”

January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”

February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”

February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”

February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”

February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”

March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.