B. Ruby Rich
Actor
B. Ruby Rich is an American scholar, critic of independent, Latin American, documentary and gay films, and a professor of Community Studies and Social Documentation also known as "SocDoc" at UC Santa Cruz. She has also taught documentary film and queer studies during spring semesters at UC Berkeley. She is credited with coining the term New Queer Cinema. Rich began her career in film exhibition after graduating from college as co-founder of the Woods Hole Film Society. She then became associate director of the Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago. After working as film critic for the Chicago Reader, she moved to New York City to become the director of the film program for the New York State Council on the Arts for a decade.
Filmography
TURA!
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A New Way of Seeing: B. Ruby Rich on Chantal Akerman
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Ahead of the Curve
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Pride
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Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
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Dykes, Camera, Action!
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Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
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Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
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Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer
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Masculinity/Femininity
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!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
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Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
Self - Interviewee
It Came from Kuchar
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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
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Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena
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Made in the USA
Self
Chantal Akerman: An Interview
B. Ruby Rich