Steve Ricci

About Steve

• Assistant Professor
• Office: 303 Melnitz Hall
• Phone: 310-205-4239

Biography

Steve Ricci maintains a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media and the Department of Information Studies. In 2002 he was named the founding Director of UCLA’s new graduate program in Moving Image Archive Studies. As Head of Research and Study at the UCLA Film and Television Archive for fifteen years, he was responsible for developing programs that widen access to the Archive’s collections and oversaw its educational publications, workshops, seminars and film retrospectives. Ricci was a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Film Archives for ten years and became its Secretary General in 2001. As co-editor his publications include “The Mexican Cinema Project” (University of Texas Press, 1994) and “Hollywood and Europe: Economics, Culture and National Identity” (British Film Institute, 1998). Ricci has authored numerous digital applications that make use of archival collections including “Executive Order 9066: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II” (Groliers, 1999). He is the author of “Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943“ (UC Press, 2008).