[Frameworks] William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission

[Dominic Angerame]

Sounds fantastic!

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 10:20 AM Scott MacDonald <smacdona at hamilton.edu>
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
> smacdona at hamilton.edu
> 315-732-3649
>
>
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