Smashing the Stereotypes On the Big Screen: While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four fi lms that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfi eld War” and “Born in East L.A.”
All four movies, which came out within a year of each other in the late 1980s, showcased for Noriega Hispanic actors and the impact Hispanics had in America. They had an indelible impact on Noriega, a film and media studies professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has written a book, Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of the Chicano Cinema, and edited nine books on Latinos in film, media and art. Noriega earlier this summer cohosted a month-long series on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) called "Race & Hollywood: Latino Images in Film."
