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B. Ruby Rich

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American film critic

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • BFI Film Classics
  • The crisis of naming in feminist film criticism
  • New queer cinema
  • Jodie Foster, growing up on-screen
  • Chick flicks

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Film & TV

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…

Known for

  • TURA! — Self2025
  • A New Way of Seeing: B. Ruby Rich on Chantal Akerman — Self2024
  • Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin — Self2021
  • Ahead of the Curve — Self2021
  • Pride — Self2021
  • The Difference Between You and Me — Self2018
  • Dykes, Camera, Action! — Self2018
  • Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western? — Self2016
  • Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other — Self2016
  • Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer — Self2015

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1932-12-14
Active to
1995-07-24

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Instance of
human
Given name
Ruby
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Boston
Occupation
journalist
Educated at
Yale University
Official website
www.brubyrich.com
Image
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date of birth
1948-00-00
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B. Ruby Rich
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