Chicano StudiesFall 2014

UC MercedDr. Iris D. Ruiz

Chican@ Cinema and/y Los Planes…

connections and complications in the 21st Century

Why do we have to look back at Los Planes? Relationship to Chicano Movement?

Page #474Film Manifestos

The Declaration of Independence Video of the Reading

-all men are created equal

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Protest speech Video

El Plan De DelanoPage #474Los Vendidos

-El Plan De Santa BarbaraPage #474-Espiritual De AztlanPage # 475

What was their purpose?-Cross-over from the

fields to campuses.

What did they derive from?

-the need to bring community and politics into education where opportunities for self-realization could be created through better curricula and training.

What were they an outgrowth of?-Grape Strike in Delano, CA 1965

Protests to Training Programs

-Federal Funding1968 U.S. Office of Economic

Opportunity funded “New Communicators” to train minorities for employment in the film industry

Jesus Trevino and the EICC (475)-Educational Issues Coordinating Committee-formed as a result of the blowouts-documented the Sal Castro hearings-edited several films 1969 La Raza Nueva

-L.A. 13 and Blowouts-Yo Soy Chicano 1972-free form docudramas-experimented with form and

content

CONTRADICTION 1970-74:

However, the audience was very limited. But it was about COMMUNITY BUILDING….CONNECTING BACK TO LOS PLANES

476…Taken as a whole, Trevino’s programming on Ahora, funded by the Ford Foundation, confronted both economic and ideological constraints.

-very limited budget and strict formatting rules

-weeknights at 7pm for 175 episodes

*connection with El Plan EDA

Ford Foundation support ended in 1970….protest of the whole “Spanish Surnamed” employees was responsible for Accion Chicano (1972) 477.

Drew upon various strategies to introduce political commentary … so included teatro performances like “Los Vendidos” in Spanish in order to be subversive.

Due to this show, Trevino was able to produce some documentaries La Raza Unidad (478)-beginning of PanLatino Advocacy

With the waning of public protest in the early 1970’s, Chicano/Latino filmmakers began to develop natioal institutions within the industry

Connection to El Plan: Trevino identified the films of the 60’s as as attempts to create “our own institutions” (478)

Late 1970’s, the protest fervor came to an end.

479-so Chicano filmmakers shifted to a politics of professionalism within the industry and the independent sector.

-While they still tried to cover topics such as nationalism, assimilation, revolution and reform

I Am Joaquin

Zoot Suit

Stand and Deliver

21st Century Media Depictions of Latinas are NOT like this:

Few Roles for Latinas

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