William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission

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Titel: William Greaves : Filmmaking as Mission

Beteiligte: Bourne, St. Clair [MitwirkendeR]; Brody, Richard [MitwirkendeR]; Cason, Franklin [MitwirkendeR]; Duster, Michelle [MitwirkendeR]; Gottlieb, Akiva [MitwirkendeR]; Greaves, William [MitwirkendeR]; Hawkins, Joan [MitwirkendeR]; Jaji, Tsitsi [MitwirkendeR]; Johnston, Alexander [MitwirkendeR]; Kinney, Katherine [MitwirkendeR]; Knee, Adam [MitwirkendeR]; Lynch, Shola [MitwirkendeR]; MacDonald, Scott [MitwirkendeR]; MacDonald, Scott [HerausgeberIn]; Moore, Celeste Day [MitwirkendeR]; Murphy, J. J [MitwirkendeR]; Musser, Charles [MitwirkendeR]; Najuma Stewart, Jacqueline [MitwirkendeR]; Serna, Laura Isabel [MitwirkendeR]; Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma [HerausgeberIn]; Taubin, Amy [MitwirkendeR]; Underwood, Joseph L [MitwirkendeR]; Zimmermann, Patricia R [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: New York, NY: Columbia University Press, [2021]
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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7312/macd19958

ISBN: 9780231553193

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Schlagwörter: African American motion picture producers and directors Biography ; African American television producers and directors Biography ; Documentary films United States History and criticism ; Documentary television programs United States History and criticism ; Experimental films United States History and criticism ; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

Art der Reproduktion: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Anmerkungen: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Note on Style -- 1. William Greaves, Documentary Filmmaking, and the African- American Experience -- 2. Meta- interview with William Greaves (an Audiobiography) -- 3. Interview with Louise Archambault Greaves -- 4. Interview with David Greaves -- 5. The Efficacy of Acting -- 6. POEM/1965 -- 7. The First World Festival of Negro Arts: An Afro- American View -- 8. Views Across the Atlantic: An American Vision of the First World Festival of Negro Arts -- 9. Sisters Inside Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class: Black Women Through the Lens of William Greaves -- 10. The Documentary as Sociodrama: William Greaves’s In the Company of Men (1969) and The Deep North (1988) -- 11. Pugilism and Performance: William Greaves, Muhammad Ali, and the Making of The Fight -- 12. Black Journal: A Few Notes from the Executive Producer -- 13. 100 Madison Avenues Will Be of No Help -- 14. Black Journal: A Personal Look Backward -- 15. “By, For and About”: Black Journal and the Rise of Multicultural Documentary in New York City, 1968– 1975 -- 16. William Greaves, Black Journal, and the Long Roots of Black Internationalism -- 17. Government- Sponsored Film and Latinidad: Voice of La Raza (1971) -- 18 Afterthoughts on the Black American Film Festival -- 19 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice Personal Production Notes -- Dossier on the Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Films -- 20 Proposal: Theatrical Short Subject -- 21 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One Rediscovered A Conversation with Dara Meyers- Kingsley -- 22 The Country in the City Central Park as Metaphor in Jonas Mekas’s Walden and William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One -- 23. “Just Another Word for Jazz”: The Signifying Auteur in William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Excerpt) -- 24. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 -- 25. Some Concepts and Logistics in Shooting the Two Excerpts of Take 2½ -- 26. The Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Effect on Filmmaking Dynamics: An Editor’s Examination of the Power of Corruption on Expectations in Filmmaking -- 27. The Symbio Cinematic Environment: An Aesthetic yet Scientific Theory for the Film -- 28. The Daring, Original, and Overlooked: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One -- 29. Still No Answers -- 30. “We’re Not Raping Bill”: Race and Gender Politics in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and Take 2½ -- 31. Symbiopsychotaxiplasticity: Some Takes on William Greaves -- 32. A Guy Who Could Think Around the Corner: Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey -- 33. Revealing Greaves: Unhiding His Archive -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about its own making, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, Greaves was an influential independent documentary filmmaker who produced, directed, shot, and edited more than a hundred films on a variety of social issues and on key African American figures ranging from Muhammad Ali to Ralph Bunche to Ida B. Wells. A multitalented artist, his career also included stints as a songwriter, a member of the Actors Studio, and, during the late 1960s, a producer and cohost of Black Journal, the first national television show focused on African American culture and politics.This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Greaves’s remarkable career. It brings together a wide range of material, including a mix of incisive essays from critics and scholars, Greaves’s own writings, an extensive meta-interview with Greaves, conversations with his wife and collaborator Louise Archambault Greaves and his son David, and a critical dossier on Symbiopsychotaxiplasm. Together, they illuminate Greaves’s mission to use filmmaking as a tool for transforming the ways African Americans were perceived by others and the ways they saw themselves. This landmark book is an essential resource on Greaves’s work and his influence on independent cinema and African-American culture

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