Chick Flicks Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

<DIV>If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women’s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, <I>Chick Flicks</I>—with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays—captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done.</P><P>For over three decades Rich has been one of the most important voices in feminist film criticism. Her presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film reviews in the<I> Village Voice</I>, <I>Elle</I>, <I>Out</I>, and the<I> Advocate</I>, and her commentaries on the public radio program “The World” have secured her a place as a central figure in the remarkable history of what she deems “cinefeminism.” In the hope that a new generation of feminist film culture might be revitalized by reclaiming its own hist