{"product_id":"william-greaves-9780231199599","title":"William Greaves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Greaves’s remarkable career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring his long and immensely productive filmmaking career, William Greaves remained focused on educating audiences about African and African American contributions to culture and history, and about the ways in which this long and productive history has been ignored and distorted. His many and varied films, beginning in the late 1950s and continuing into the 2000s, are a major achievement by an American master, an engagement with cinema long past ready for rediscovery. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eScott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart have broken new ground on a whole new field of film study with \u003ci\u003eWilliam Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission\u003c\/i\u003e. A rewarding adventure in itself, this is the first study of this scope on Greaves, an absolutely essential and kaleidoscopic figure of filmmaking and film thinking but one who until now has been hidden within his immense productivity. -- Terri Simone Francis, director of the Black Cinema Center\/Archive, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003eSome artists are so far ahead of their time that the uniqueness of their vision goes unrecognized. So it was with William Greaves, a man of many talents, who created innovative forms to represent crucial issues. Here, finally, is the appreciation he has long deserved. -- Bill Nichols, author of \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Documentary\u003c\/i\u003e, third edition\u003cbr\u003eThrough a thoughtfully curated selection of essays and other materials, the editors provide readers with a thorough understanding of the cultural context, aesthetic influences, and influence of William Greaves’s work. Following the director’s understanding of film as constantly in flux, the editors’ approach offers a beginning, or “take one,” to what they hope is a longer discussion of the director’s oeuvre. The result is the first detailed study of an important twentieth-century filmmaker that promises to engage scholars and students alike. -- Paula J. Massood, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface. William Greaves: Renaissance Man and Race Man\u003cbr\u003eNote on Style\u003cbr\u003e1. William Greaves, Documentary Filmmaking, and the African-American Experience, by Adam Knee and Charles Musser\u003cbr\u003e2. Meta-interview with William Greaves (an Audiobiography), by Scott MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e3. Interview with Louise Archambault Greaves, by Scott MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e4. Interview with David Greaves, by Scott MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e5. The Efficacy of Acting, by Katherine Kinney\u003cbr\u003e6. POEM\/1965, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e7. The First World Festival of Negro Arts: An Afro-American View, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e8. Views Across the Atlantic: An American Vision of the First World Festival of Negro Arts, by Joseph L. Underwood\u003cbr\u003e9. Sisters Inside \u003ci\u003eStill a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class\u003c\/i\u003e—Black Women Through the Lens of William Greaves, by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart\u003cbr\u003e10. The Documentary as Sociodrama: William Greaves’s \u003ci\u003eIn the Company of Men \u003c\/i\u003e(1969) and \u003ci\u003eThe Deep North\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), by J. J. Murphy\u003cbr\u003e11. Pugilism and Performance: William Greaves, Muhammad Ali, and the Making of \u003ci\u003eThe Fight\u003c\/i\u003e, by Alexander Johnston\u003cbr\u003e12. \u003ci\u003eBlack Journal\u003c\/i\u003e: A Few Notes from the Executive Producer, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e13. 100 Madison Avenues Will Be of No Help, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e14. \u003ci\u003eBlack Journal\u003c\/i\u003e: A Personal Look Backward, by St. Clair Bourne\u003cbr\u003e15. “By, For and About”: \u003ci\u003eBlack Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and the Rise of Multicultural Documentary in New York City, 1968–1975, by Charles Musser\u003cbr\u003e16. William Greaves, \u003ci\u003eBlack Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Long Roots of Black Internationalism, by Celeste Day Moore\u003cbr\u003e17. Government-Sponsored Film and \u003ci\u003eLatinidad\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003ci\u003e Voice of La Raza \u003c\/i\u003e(1971), by Laura Isabel Serna\u003cbr\u003e18. Afterthoughts on the Black American Film Festival, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e19. \u003ci\u003eIda B. Wells: A Passion for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e: Personal Production Notes, by Michelle Duster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDossier on the \u003ci\u003eSymbiopsychotaxiplasm\u003c\/i\u003e Films\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e20. Proposal: \u003ci\u003eTheatrical Short Subject\u003c\/i\u003e, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e21. \u003ci\u003eSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One\u003c\/i\u003e Rediscovered: A Conversation with Dara Meyers-Kingsley, by Scott MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e22. The Country in the City: Central Park as Metaphor in Jonas Mekas’s \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e and William Greaves’s \u003ci\u003eSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One\u003c\/i\u003e, by Scott MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e23. “Just Another Word for Jazz”: The Signifying Auteur in William Greaves’s \u003ci\u003eSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One\u003c\/i\u003e (Excerpt), by Akiva Gottlieb\u003cbr\u003e24. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e25. Some Concepts and Logistics in Shooting the Two Excerpts of Take 2½, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e26. The Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Effect on Filmmaking Dynamics, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e27. The Symbio Cinematic Environment: An Aesthetic yet Scientific Theory for the Film, by William Greaves\u003cbr\u003e28. The Daring, Original, \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Overlooked: \u003ci\u003eSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One\u003c\/i\u003e, by Richard Brody\u003cbr\u003e29. Still No Answers, by Amy Taubin\u003cbr\u003e30. “We’re Not Raping Bill”: Race and Gender Politics in \u003ci\u003eSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTake 2½\u003c\/i\u003e, by Joan Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e31. Symbiopsychotaxiplasticity: Some Takes on William Greaves, by Franklin Cason, Jr., and Tsitsi Jaji\u003cbr\u003e32. A Guy Who Could Think Around the Corner: \u003ci\u003eRalph Bunche: An American Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, by Patricia R. Zimmermann\u003cbr\u003e33. Revealing Greaves: Unhiding His Archive, by Shola Lynch\u003cbr\u003eFilmography\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400357159255,"sku":"9780231199599","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231199599.jpg?v=1730470481","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/william-greaves-9780231199599","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}