Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Mari Ruíz-Torres collection on The X-Files
MS 348  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Processing History
  • Historical Note
  • Collection Scope and Contents
  • Collection Arrangement
  • Separated Materials
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Mari Ruíz-Torres collection on The X-Files
    Date (inclusive): 1994-2005, undated
    Date (bulk): 2000-2004
    Collection Number: MS 348
    Creator: Ruíz-Torres, Mari
    Extent: 4.23 linear feet (3 boxes)
    Repository: Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
    Riverside, CA 92517-5900
    Abstract: This collection is primarily comprised of press clippings, publications, correspondence, and other material pertaining to The X-Files television program, motion pictures, and official fan club. Includes action figures of characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, realia featuring The X-Files logo, and newsletters from The X-Files Official Fan Club. Also represented in the collection are press clippings, publications, and other material regarding the series' actors Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Includes newsletters from the Official Gillian Anderson Web Site and press clippings of interviews with David Duchovny.
    Languages: The collection is in English.

    Access

    This collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.

    Preferred Citation

    [identification of item], [date if possible]. Mari Ruíz-Torres collection on The X-Files (MS 348). Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.

    Acquisition Information

    Provenance unknown.

    Processing History

    Processed by Sarah M. Allison, Special Collections Library Assistant, 2011.

    Historical Note

    The X-Files television program created by Chris Carter aired on the Fox Television Network from September 10, 1993 to May 19, 2002. The series followed FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigated unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena that became marginalized and referred to as "x-files." The success of the television program led to two motion pictures, the 1998 The X-Files: Fight the Future and the 2008 The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the latter playing on the famous series slogan coined by Fox Mulder. The program's end in 2002 made it, at the time, the longest running science fiction series in United States television broadcasting history.
    Mari Ruíz-Torres was an avid fan of The X-Files television program. She collected books, action figures, photographs, and other materials pertaining to the series. She was also a member of The X-Files Official Fan Club. Mari was a resident of Riverside, California and a graduate from the University of California, Riverside.

    Collection Scope and Contents

    This collection is primarily comprised of press clippings, publications, correspondence, and other material pertaining to The X-Files television program, motion pictures, and official fan club. Includes action figures of characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, realia featuring The X-Files logo, and newsletters from The X-Files Official Fan Club. Also represented in the collection are press clippings, publications, and other material regarding the series' actors Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Includes newsletters from the Official Gillian Anderson Web Site and press clippings of interviews with David Duchovny.

    Collection Arrangement

    This collection is arranged into three series as follows:
    • Series 1. The X-Files television program and motion pictures, 1994-2004, undated
    • Series 2. The X-Files Official Fan Club, 2000-2004, undated
    • Series 3. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, 1995-2005

    Separated Materials

    Some of the items received with this collection have been cataloged and added to the Eaton Science Fiction & Fantasy Collection housed in Special Collections & Archives. The UCR Libraries' online public access catalog can be used to locate these items.

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

    Subjects

    Anderson, Gillian, 1968-
    Duchovny, David
    Fan clubs

    Genres and Forms of Materials

    Action figures
    Clippings (information artifacts)
    Publications
    Television scripts