Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart - "William Greaves, Filmmaking as Mission"

Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart will discuss William Greaves, Filmmaking as Mission.

Presented in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

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About the book: 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. 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. This landmark book is an essential resource on Greaves’s work and his influence on independent cinema and African-American culture.

About Scott MacDonald: Scott MacDonald is author of the series, A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, in five volumes from University of California Press, and many other books, most recently Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (Oxford, 2014), Binghamton Babylon: Voices from the Cinema Department (SUNY Press, 2015), The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema (with Patricia Zimmermann; IU Press, 2017), and The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama (Oxford, 2019). He has curated film events at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Anthology Film Archives, the Pompidou Center, SFMoMA, the Pacific Film Archive, the Harvard Film Archive, and other venues. He teaches film history at Hamilton College.

About Jacqueline Najuma Stewart: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and chief artistic and programming officer at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She is author of Migrating to the Movies (University of California Press, 2005) and co-editor of The LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015). With Charles Musser, she curated the DVD collection Pioneers of African-American Cinema (2016) for Kino Lorber. She is the host of Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies.