Thank you, Scott and Jackie! Bill was a great man and I'm anxious to read it.
Fondest regards, Dennis Doros *Milestone Film & Video • *PO Box 128 • Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: +1 (201) 767-3117 • Email: [email protected] • www.milestonefilms.com President, *Association of Moving Image Archivists* [email protected] • www.amianet.org Pronouns: He, Him, His JOIN MILESTONE'S MAILING LIST TODAY! <http://milestonefilms.us3.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=4a0b9e434a9f3e8603c29806e&id=f30d1906e2> Support us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>! On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 1:21 PM 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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