"Has it been 32 years since Vito Russo took the measure of gay identity in movies with his seminal cri de couer The Celluloid Closet ? Many film journalists have endeavored to update the landscape, but none has done so with the passion and insider's wisdom of B. Ruby Rich in her necessary volume New Queer Cinema . . . . Rich celebrates the swagger, cheek, and positive energy presaged by such mavericks as John Waters, Lizzie Borden and Derek Jarman and fulfilled in the '90 sand beyond by, among others, Rose Troce, Todd ...
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"Has it been 32 years since Vito Russo took the measure of gay identity in movies with his seminal cri de couer The Celluloid Closet ? Many film journalists have endeavored to update the landscape, but none has done so with the passion and insider's wisdom of B. Ruby Rich in her necessary volume New Queer Cinema . . . . Rich celebrates the swagger, cheek, and positive energy presaged by such mavericks as John Waters, Lizzie Borden and Derek Jarman and fulfilled in the '90 sand beyond by, among others, Rose Troce, Todd Haynes, Cheryl Dunye, Gus Van Sant and Tom???s Guti???rrez Alea.--Jan Stuart "San Francisco Chronicle"
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