This is the New York City premiere of the newly restored HD version of the original 16mm film. James Baldwin (1924–1987) was at once a major 20th-century American author, a Civil Rights activist, and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, Black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy. James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket captures on film the passionate intellect and courageous writing of a man who was born Black, impoverished, gay, and gifted. Using striking archival footage, newsreel clips, and interviews with writers Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, William Styron, and biographer David Leeming, the film places Baldwin’s work in the African-American literary tradition-from slave narratives and black preaching to their own contemporary work.įollowed by Q&A with filmmaker Karen Thorsen and Ricardo Montez, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Humanities Department at the School of Undergraduate Studies, The New School, moderated by Michelle Materre, Assistant Professor, School of Media Studies at The New School, Curator/Producer, Creatively Speaking Film Series. This screening is part of the year-long, city-wide celebration The Year of James Baldwin.
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The Year of James Baldwin is presented in partnership with Harlem Stage, Columbia University School of the Arts and New York Live Arts, and in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the School of Media Studies, and the School of Writing from The New School.American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and those who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States. Groups or organizations featured include: Actors Studio, Algonquin Round Table, Group Theatre, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Women of Tin Pan Alley, Negro Ensemble Company, Juilliard School, the Beat Generation, the singer-songwriters of the 1970s, Sun Records, vaudeville, and Warner Bros. History Īmerican Masters, a series "devoted to America's 'greatest native-born and adopted' artists", was originally scheduled to premiere in September 1985 for "logistical scheduling reasons" the premiere was delayed until summer 1986, though on October 16, 1985, an American Masters "special" called Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait was aired. The first of the 15 first-season episodes was Private Conversations, a " cinema-verite documentary by Christian Blackwood done in that trickiest of cinematic forms: a film about a film, in this instance the television version of Death of a Salesman, directed by Volker Schlöndorff".
It aired on June 23, 1986, as one of two episodes not specifically commissioned for the show's first season. Susan Lacy, American Masters creator and former executive producer, selected each subject, matched them to the specific filmmakers, and oversaw a first-season budget of $8 million. #American masters james baldwin seriesīefore creating the series Lacy had been the senior programmer for Great Performances and one of the "architects" of American Playhouse, having written the original proposal for the latter.
At the time of the show's premiere, she was also the East Coast head of the Sundance Institute. In 2014, Michael Kantor succeeded Lacy as executive producer. As an independent producer, Kantor had directed one American Masters episode (Quincy Jones: In the Pocket, season 16, episode 4) and produced and directed the Emmy Award-winning series, Broadway: The American Musical and Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America with WNET.
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