*Thanks, Dominic!* On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 2:13 PM Dominic Angerame <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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