Bill Gunn
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Cracked Actor: Bill Gunn
Essay
Improvisational Jamming: The Process and Production of Personal Problems
Bill Gunn on the set of Personal Problems (1980) Essay [wpbb post:title] By Nicholas Forster A detailed look at the long, fascinating history of Bill Gunn and Ishmael Reed’s experimental, groundbreaking soap opera. Personal Problems is streaming now on Metrograph At Home. It all began with an idea that to many seemed inconceivable. In 1977,…
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Essay
The Life of an Artist is Not For the Pusillanimous
Essay The Life of an Artist is Not For the Pusillanimous By Toussaint Jeanlouis Reacting to jazz-like lyricism of Bill Gunn’s Black Picture Show. Awoye Timpo The ancestors are getting even. We are listening to the dead playing while believing it is we who are in control. But it’s Bill Gunn, and this is his…
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Essay
Black Picture Show in Context
Essay BLACK PICTURE SHOW IN CONTEXT By SOYICA COLBERT An examination of what Bill Gunn’s play meant at the time of its initial release, and how to understand both its recent incarnation and where it fits in the history of Black art. Bill Gunn On January 6, 1975, at the height of the Black Arts…
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