Cine Ethiopia

Author : Michael W. Thomas
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953551
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cine-Ethiopia written by Michael W. Thomas and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, Ethiopian films have come to dominate the screening schedules of the many cinemas in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, as well as other urban centers. Despite undergoing an unprecedented surge in production and popularity in Ethiopia and in the diaspora, this phenomenon has been broadly overlooked by African film and media scholars and Ethiopianists alike. This collection of essays and interviews on cinema in Ethiopia represents the first work of its kind and establishes a broad foundation for furthering research on this topic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the topic and bringing together contributions from both Ethiopian and international scholars, the collection offers new and alternative narratives for the development of screen media in Africa. The book’s relevance reaches far beyond its specific locale of Ethiopia as contributions focus on a broad range of topics—such as commercial and genre films, diaspora filmmaking, and the role of women in the film industry—while simultaneously discussing multiple forms of screen media, from satellite TV to “video films.” Bringing both historical and contemporary moments of cinema in Ethiopia into the critical frame offers alternative considerations for the already radically changing critical paradigm surrounding the understandings of African cinema.

Author : Michael W. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350227420
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Ethiopian Cinema written by Michael W. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival, ethnographic and textual research methods, this book offers a sustained and detailed appreciation of Amharic-language cinema. Michael Thomas considers 'fiker'/love as an organising principle in national Ethiopian culture and, by extension, Amharic cinema. Placing 'fiker' as central to understanding Amharic film genres also illuminates the continuous negotiations at play between romantic, familial, patriotic and spiritual notions of love in these films. Thomas considers the production and exhibition of films in Ethiopia, charting fluctuations and continuities between the past and the present. Having done so, he offers detailed textual readings of films, identifying important junctures in the industry's development and the emergence of new genres. The findings of the book detail the affective characteristics that delineate most Amharic genres and the role culturally specific concepts, such as fiker, play in maintaining the relevance of commercial cinemas reliant on domestic audiences.

Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119099854
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to African Cinema written by Kenneth W. Harrow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative guide to African cinema with contributions from a team of experts on the topic A Companion to African Cinema offers an overview of critical approaches to African cinema. With contributions from an international panel of experts, the Companion approaches the topic through the lens of cultural studies, contemporary transformations in the world order, the rise of globalization, film production, distribution, and exhibition. This volume represents a new approach to African cinema criticism that once stressed the sociological and sociopolitical aspects of a film. The text explores a wide range of broad topics including: cinematic economics, video movies, life in cinematic urban Africa, reframing human rights, as well as more targeted topics such as the linguistic domestication of Indian films in the Hausa language and the importance of female African filmmakers and their successes in overcoming limitations caused by gender inequality. The book also highlights a comparative perspective of African videoscapes of Southern Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Côte d’Ivoire and explores the rise of Nairobi-based Female Filmmakers. This important resource: Puts the focus on critical analyses that take into account manifestations of the political changes brought by neocolonialism and the waning of the cold war Explores Examines the urgent questions raised by commercial video about globalization Addresses issues such as funding, the acquisition of adequate production technologies and apparatuses, and the development of adequately trained actors Written for film students and scholars, A Companion to African Cinema offers a look at new critical approaches to African cinema.

Author : Chris Prouty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Catalogue of Documentary Films and Film Footage on Ethiopia and Eritrea written by Chris Prouty and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253015669
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema written by Ruth Ben-Ghiat and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced and cosmopolitan directors (Augusto Genina, Mario Camerini) as well as new filmmakers (Roberto Rossellini) who would make their marks in the postwar years. Ben-Ghiat sees these films as part of the aesthetic development that would lead to neo-realism. Shot in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, these movies reinforced Fascist racial and labor policies and were largely forgotten after the war. Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York State Journal of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793649251
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963 written by Samson Kaunga Ndanyi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The author frames this logic as unidirectional approach purporting that Africans were passive recipients of colonial programs. Contrary to this understanding, the author insists that African viewers were active participants in the discourse of cinema in Kenya. Employing unorthodox means to protest mediocre films devoid of basic elements of film production, African spectators forced the colonial government to reconsider the way it produced films. The author frames the reconsideration as bidirectional approach. Instructional cinema first emerged as a tool to “educate” and “modernize” Africans, but it transformed into a contestable space of cultural and political power, a space that both sides appropriated to negotiate power and actualize their abstract ideas.

Author : Siegbert Uhlig
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclopedia treats all important terms of the history of ideas of this central region between Orient and Africa. After its completion the set will comprise five volumes - four text and one index volume with altogether approximately 4000 articles. The topics range from basic data over archaeology, ethnology and anthropology, history, the languages and literatures up to the art, religion and culture. This first volume combines about 1000 articles in the English language, written by approximately 250 authors with extents varying from a few lines to several pages. Approximately 150 maps and about the same number of illustrations round off this unique reference book.

Author : Leonard Mosley
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson [1964]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haile Selassie written by Leonard Mosley and published by London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson [1964]. This book was released on 1965 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sympathetic biography of the ruler of Ethiopia.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Ethiopia written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: