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Media Studies

Kevin Bozelka
Jennifer Brundidge
Wenhong Chen
Caroline Frick
Jennifer Fuller
Lalitha Gopalan
Steve Jennings
Michael Kackman
Mary Celeste Kearney
Peter Kovacs
Shanti Kumar
Derek Lackaff
Madhavi Mallapragada
Susan McLeland
Bruce Pennycook
Anne Peterson
Charles Ramirez Berg
America Rodriguez
Kevin Sanson
Tom Schatz
Laura Simmons
Janet Staiger
Laura Stein
Joe Straubhaar
Sharon Strover
Kathleen Tyner
S. Craig Watkins
Karin Wilkins
Diane Zander Mason
 

Production & Screenwriting

Ben Bays
Kat Candler
Steven Dietz
Andrew Garrison
Kyle Henry
Don Howard
Stuart Kelban
Susan Kelly
Dan Knight
Karen Kocher
Anne Lewis
Deb Lewis
Richard Lewis
Geoff Marslett
Steve Mims
Bruce Pennycook
John Pierson
Ed Radtke
Charles Ramirez Berg
PJ Raval
Nancy Schiesari
Andrew Shea
Alex Smith
Kathie Smith
Ellen Spiro
Paul Stekler
Allucquere Rosanne Stone
Tom Willett

Charles Ramirez Berg

University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Joe M. Dealey, Sr. Professor in Media Studies

Charles Ramirez Berg

E-mail: ramberg@mail.utexas.edu
Office: WWH 414
Phone: 512-471-9925
University Distinguished Teaching Professor.
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1987
Curriculum Vitae: PDF

Author of Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002) and Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film ,1967-1983 (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1992) as well as Posters from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (Mexico City: The Mexican Film Institute and the University of Guadalajara Press), reprinted as Cine Mexicano: Posters from the Golden Age, 1936-1956 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001).

In addition, he has written many articles on Latinos in U.S. films and on Mexican cinema, as well as articles for the World Film Encyclopedia, The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.

He writes screenplays, has published fiction, poetry, and co-authored a children’s book, The Gift of the Poinsettia with Chicana poet Pat Mora (Arte Público Press/U. of Houston, 1995). From 1991-1994 he served on the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema Studies. He is a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Austin Film Society, and served as its president from 2001-2003.

He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1997-1998. Ramírez Berg is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1996) and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the 1999-2000 Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship the 2003 Piper Professor Award, awarded by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation “for outstanding academic and scholarly achievement and for dedication to the teaching profession,” and the 2004 Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching at The University of Texas at Austin.

He regularly teaches courses in film history and criticism, as well as screenwriting and narration in film, including: RTF 314, the introductory survey of film history; RTF 359 Latino Images in Film; RTF 370 Narration in World Cinema; RTF 333 Introduction to Screenwriting; RTF 370 Introduction to Film Criticism; RTF 386 Stereotyping; and RTF 386 Alternative Poetics.

    

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