Writer, professor and independent producer, Marcia Rock maintains
a longstanding and continuing interest in the effect of conflict
and violence trapped within the intimacy of the family circle.
Her award-winning documentary, Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast
Stories, on the changing role of women in Northern Ireland, (1997)
won the American Women in Radio and Television Grand Award and Documentary
Award and won the first place Chris Award from the Columbus International
Film & Video Festival, among others. It aired in Ireland,
Northern Ireland, Spain, Canada and on PBS stations in the US. "Back
from Beyond: Women Abuse and Drugs," (1998) profiles a new approach
to drug treatment, specifically geared to women addicts convicted
of non-violent felonies. In 1994, she produced City Originals:
Women Making It Work hosted by New York's first lady, Donna Hanover
Giuliani, which won a bronze plaque at the 1994 Christopher Awards
in the social issues category, and honorable mention from American
Women in Radio and Television Commendation Awards in 1995.
Her interest in Ireland began in the 1970s with her first documentary,
The Bronx Irish at the Ramparts, lamenting the disappearing Irish
neighborhoods in New York. Three documentaries on Ireland
and Irish Americans followed. Sons of Derry (1992) profiles
the Protestant Glen Barr and the Catholic Paddy Doherty and the
story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland as told through their
lives. It received a bronze medal from the New York International
Program Festival in 1993. No Irish Need Apply (1993) visits
1860s New York with tour guide Peter Quinn, based on his novel,
Banished Children of Eve (Penguin Books 1995). McSorley's
New York (1987) chronicles the history of New York's Irish immigrant
community and the role McSorley's Ale House has played in the cultural
and political life of the city. The film received an Emmy
Award in 1988.
Rock's interests extend to the arts, literature and international
affairs. Her documentary on the literary history of Greenwich
Village titled Village Writers: The Bohemian Legacy, (1991) was
nominated for a New York Emmy in 1992. Her profile of North
Carolina writer Reynolds Price in Reynolds Price: A Writer's
Inheritance (1990), explores the powerful relationship between family
history and art and won the Red Ribbon Award from the American Film
and Video Festival 1992. Rock also produced a documentary
on the media coverage of the Intifada in Israel in 1988 and received
her first Emmy in 1983 for The Singing Angels in China, a chronicle
of a Cleveland youth choir's trip to China.
Marcia Rock is the Director of Broadcast Journalism and a professor
in the Department of Journalism, New York University. Dr. Rock co-authored
Waiting for Prime Time: The Women of Television News (University
of Illinois Press 1988) with veteran newscaster Marlene Sanders.
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