Sounds fantastic! On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 10:20 AM Scott MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Dear Frameworkers,* > > *I want you to know about a new book, just out from Columbia University > Press, on the filmmaker William Greaves. Jacqueline Stewart and I are > co-editors of William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission.* > > > > *Best known for his experimental film-about-its-own-making, > Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, Greaves was a prolific and influential > independent documentary filmmaker who produced, directed, shot, and edited > more than a hundred films on a wide variety of social issues and on key > African-American figures ranging from Muhammad Ali and Ida B. Wells to > Ralph Bunche. Greaves was a multitalented artist whose career included > stints as a songwriter, a dancer, a longtime member of the Actors Studio, > and during the late 1960s, executive producer and co-host of Black Journal, > the first nationally broadcast television show focused on African American > culture and politics.William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission provides the > first comprehensive overview of Greaves’ remarkable career. It brings > together a wide range of materials, including a mix of incisive essays from > critics and scholars; Greaves’s own writings (some never before published); > an extensive meta-interview with Greaves, conversations with his wife and > collaborator Louise Archambault Greaves and his son David; a dossier on > the Symbiopsychotaxiplasm films, and the most complete filmography to > date. * > > > *Our book is an essential resource on Greaves’s work and his influence on > independent cinema and African-American culture. We hope you will find it > useful.* > > *Scott* > > Scott MacDonald > scottmacdonaldcinema.com > Art History Department > Chair, Cinema & Media Studies > Hamilton College > [email protected] > 315-732-3649 > > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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