[Frameworks] William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission

[Scott MacDonald]

*Thanks, Dominic!*

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 2:13 PM Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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