Pasion por Peliculas: Film professor examines how Latinos are countering stereotypes in Hollywood cinema – Dr. Charles Ramírez Berg from the University of Texas

“To grasp how much Dr. Charles Ramírez Berg loves film, one need only look at his office walls. There’s a poster for the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Vertigo,” which Ramírez Berg went to see every day for a week when he was just a boy, walking downtown to the theater from his El Paso home. There’s a poster for “Lord of the Rings” inscribed to Ramírez Berg by the film’s director Peter Jackson.

And among other posters is one for the Robert Rodriguez film “El Mariachi.” Written in black ink across the image is Rodriguez’s inscription: “Charles! The coolest teacher of all time….”

It’s an apt statement for Ramírez Berg, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. Ramírez Berg has won all university-wide teaching awards and has been repeatedly voted one of the university’s best teachers in student polls.”*

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