*Dear Frameworkers,* *William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission, **the first book on William Greaves's long and remarkable career as songwriter, dancer, actor, and wildly prolific documentary and experimental filmmaker, has just been published by Columbia University Press. See our webpage:* *https://cup.columbia.edu/book/william-greaves/9780231199599 <https://cup.columbia.edu/book/william-greaves/9780231199599> *
*Many of you will be familiar with Greaves's landmark film-about-filmmaking, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (shot in 1968, first version 1971); and you may know about some of Greaves's many other contributions to cinema and television, including Black Journal, the first nationally broadcast news show focusing on African America and Africa, which Greaves executive-produced and co-hosted, and dozens of accomplished, often-prize-winning documentary films. * *There's Emergency Ward (1959), made when Greaves was working with the National Film Board of Canada as part of the first cinema-verite unit in North America; **The Fight, his feature about the first Ali/Frazier fight (shot in 1971, various versions until a director's cut in1991);** From These Roots (1974), Greaves's evocation of the Harlem Renaissance; and the bio-pics Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989), about the courageous journalist, and Ralph Bunch: An American Odyssey (2001), about the intellectual, diplomat, and first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize--to name just a few. * *This is a big, well-illustrated book, with interviews, writings by Greaves and collaborators, critical writings by Richard Brody, and Amy Taubin, and new scholarship by **Joan Hawkins, Tsitsi Jaji,** J.J. Murphy, Charles Musser, Patricia Zimmermann, and many others. The book includes an extensive dossier on the Symbiopsychotaxiplasm films and the most complete filmography available.* *Columbia University Press offers a 20% discount for anyone purchasing the book: use CUP20 as your discount code.* *We hope you'll enjoy William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission and find it useful!* *Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart*
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