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