Jeffrey Ruoff
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
Jeffrey Ruoff is a film historian and documentary filmmaker. His monograph Telluride in the Film Festival Galaxy, first published in 2016 by St Andrews, appeared as an E-book in 2018. L'Harmattan published a French translation, Le Festival du Film de Telluride: L'un des meilleurs de la galaxie, in France in 2018. Ruoff has edited two anthologies: Coming Soon to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals with St Andrews in 2012 and Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel with Duke University Press in 2006. An American Family: A Televised Life, his book on the 1973 public television series, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2002. In 1998, he co-authored a book, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, on historical memories of the Pacific War in Japanese cinema. He has contributed chapters to numerous academic books and articles to many academic journals, as well as Op-Eds in publications such as The Conversation, Fortune, and The Huffington Post. His films and videos, including Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty (2012), have been shown at festivals and on television in the United States and abroad. He teaches production courses in documentary and video mashups, history courses on New Waves in Film, documentary and ethnographic film. In 2015-16, he was an OpEd Public Voices Fellow.
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Department(s)
Film and Media Studies
Education
- B.A. Cornell University, 1985
- M.F.A. Temple University, 1988
- Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1995
Selected Publications
Telluride in the Film Festival Galaxy, St Andrews: St Andrews Film Books, 2016; available as an E-book here, https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/digital/publishing/books/ruoff-telluri...
Coming Soon to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals, ed., St Andrews: St Andrews Film Books, 2012.
Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty, New Boston Films, 2012, a documentary film about the dance company Pilobolus.
“No Place Like Homeland,” The Huffington Post, posted October 1, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-ruoff/no-place-like-homeland_b_822....
Works In Progress
I have begun research on a long-term book-length manuscript, Out of the Shadow of Cannes: Film Festivals in France, which explores the rich diversity of festivals in France that is obscured by an over-emphasis on Cannes.