When director Steven Spielberg was remaking "West Side Story," he turned to members of the Latinx community to make the film more culturally and racially sensitive. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, the chair of cinema studies at CU Boulder, was part of that committee. He also wrote "West Side Story as Cinema: The Making and Impact of an American Masterpiece."
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