12. Black Journal: A Few Notes from the Executive Producer

Chapters in this book

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