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| CSRC Director Chon A. Noriega |
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CHON A. NORIEGA is Professor in the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. He is author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (Minnesota, 2000) and editor of nine books dealing with Latino media, performance and visual art. Since 1996, he has been editor of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, the flagship journal for the field since its founding in 1970. In July 2002, he became Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. For the past decade, Noriega has been active in media policy and professional development, for which Hispanic Business named him as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics. He is co-founder of the 500-member National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP, established in 1999) and on the Board of Directors of the Independent Television Service (ITVS), the largest source of independent project funding within public television. Noriega has served as moderator for the Arts and Entertainment Summit of the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus; and he recently participated in a Forum hosted by the U.S. Congressional Entertainment Caucus. In addition to his work in media, Noriega has curated numerous arts projects, including the recent traveling exhibition Just Another Poster: Chicano Graphic Arts in California. He has also helped recover and preserve independent films and video art, including the first three Chicano-directed feature films. The restoration of these films is the cornerstone of an ongoing "Chicano Cinema Recovery Project" that he organized between the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Chicano Studies Research Center, with major support from the Ford, Rockefeller and Ahmanson Foundations.
Noriega's awards include the Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art (for art history) and the Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship (for documentary production). Noriega recently won the Ann C. Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize for 2004-05 for his community partnership with Self-Help Graphics. To learn more about the partnership, click here.
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Recent ArticlesRights for Some People, Not Others The Chronicle of Higher Education September 2005
Hispanic Vista May 2005 |
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Press CommentaryLife in Colors: the Chicano Canvas FILM-US: Latino Festival Celebrates Its Quinceañera Making space for Chicano art Burn's omission seen as Latino civil rights issue Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2007, E1. Survive this: A new hue to CBS competition The Philadelphia Inquirer August 24, 2006, A1. Reclaiming
the avant-garde New leadership at Self Help, a Latino art nonprofit, works to restructure and reopen Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2005 Macarena Hernández: Eva did it (story about Mexican American representation in Hollywood) Dallas Morning News Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2005 Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2005 Daily Bruin May 19, 2005 Our
Picks for the Best Latinos In Film Marie
Constance: Dancing to Her Own Tune Los Angeles Times August 1, 2004 Hispanic Business Magazine, April 4, 2003 Spanish-language TV Less Popular among Young Hispanics Hispanic Business Magazine, March 7 2001 |
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Press CoverageLos Angeles County Museum
Of Art Announces Latino Arts Initiative; Forges Partnership With Serving the Community, Preserving the Cultural Heritage UCLA Spotlight January 2004 2003 Community Partnership Grants UCLA in LA 2003 UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Names New Director July 12, 2002 La Prensa San Diego 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America Hispanic Business Magazine, 1999 |
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Recent BooksI Am Aztlan: The Personal Essay in Chicano Studies UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2004. Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema University of Minnesota Press, 2000. "One of the most influential figures in ethnic media studies takes direct aim at how Chicano filmmaking has been represented in the history of media in the United States." Review in La Prensa San Diego March 10, 2000 Urban Exile, Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. Ed. Chon A . Noriega. University of Minnesota Press, 1998. For reviews, click here.
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ProjectsA Ver: Revisioning Art History (Principal Investigator) Race and Independent Media Project (Principal Investigator)
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