William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission

Published by Columbia University Press 2021

William Greaves

Filmmaking as Mission

Edited by: Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

https://doi.org/10.7312/macd19958

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About this book

William 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.

Author / Editor information

Scott MacDonald is director of cinema and media studies and professor of art history at Hamilton College. His books include The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films About Place (2001), Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (2015), and The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama (2019).

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the director of Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (2005) and the coeditor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015). She is the host of “Silent Sunday Nights” on Turner Classic Movies.

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Paula J. Massood, author of Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film:
Through 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 a 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface William Greaves: Renaissance Man and Race Man Jacqueline Najuma Stewart and Scott MacDonald Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Note on Style Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxi
1. William Greaves, Documentary Filmmaking, and the African- American Experience Adam Knee and Charles Musser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Meta- interview with William Greaves (an Audiobiography) Scott MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Interview with Louise Archambault Greaves Scott MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
4. Interview with David Greaves Scott MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
5. The Efficacy of Acting Katherine Kinney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
6. POEM/1965 William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
7. The First World Festival of Negro Arts: An Afro- American View William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8. Views Across the Atlantic: An American Vision of the First World Festival of Negro Arts Joseph L. Underwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
9. Sisters Inside Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class: Black Women Through the Lens of William Greaves Jacqueline Najuma Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
10. The Documentary as Sociodrama: William Greaves’s In the Company of Men (1969) and The Deep North (1988) J. J. Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
11. Pugilism and Performance: William Greaves, Muhammad Ali, and the Making of The Fight Alexander Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
12. Black Journal: A Few Notes from the Executive Producer William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
13. 100 Madison Avenues Will Be of No Help William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
14. Black Journal: A Personal Look Backward St. Clair Bourne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
15. “By, For and About”: Black Journal and the Rise of Multicultural Documentary in New York City, 1968– 1975 Charles Musser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
16. William Greaves, Black Journal, and the Long Roots of Black Internationalism Celeste Day Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
17. Government- Sponsored Film and Latinidad: Voice of La Raza (1971) Laura Isabel Serna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
18 Afterthoughts on the Black American Film Festival William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
19 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice Personal Production Notes Michelle Duster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Dossier on the Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Films Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
20 Proposal: Theatrical Short Subject William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
21 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One Rediscovered A Conversation with Dara Meyers- Kingsley Scott MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
22 The Country in the City Central Park as Metaphor in Jonas Mekas’s Walden and William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One Scott MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
23. “Just Another Word for Jazz”: The Signifying Auteur in William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Excerpt) Akiva Gottlieb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
24. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
25. Some Concepts and Logistics in Shooting the Two Excerpts of Take 2½ William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
26. The Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Effect on Filmmaking Dynamics: An Editor’s Examination of the Power of Corruption on Expectations in Filmmaking William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
27. The Symbio Cinematic Environment: An Aesthetic yet Scientific Theory for the Film William Greaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
28. The Daring, Original, and Overlooked: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One Richard Brody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
29. Still No Answers Amy Taubin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
30. “We’re Not Raping Bill”: Race and Gender Politics in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and Take 2½ Joan Hawkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
31. Symbiopsychotaxiplasticity: Some Takes on William Greaves Franklin Cason and Tsitsi Jaji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	374
32. A Guy Who Could Think Around the Corner: Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey Patricia R. Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
33. Revealing Greaves: Unhiding His Archive Shola Lynch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: August 5, 2021
ISBN: 9780231553193