Popular Ethiopian 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 : 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 : Frances Linzee Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethiopia, Eritrea & Djibouti written by Frances Linzee Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia's millennia-old monuments, Djibouti's stunning diving, Eritrea's architecture - the Horn of Africa has plenty to offer the traveller. Use this guide to discover the continent's best-kept secret. * over 50 maps, providing comprehensive coverage of the region * valuable information on safety and health * where to stay, what to eat and when to go * special sections on Ethiopia's diverse birdlife, Red Sea diving, Eritrea's architecture and Djibouti's geology * comprehensive language section covering Amharic, French, Tigrinyan and Arabic

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa Film & Tv written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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:

Author : Allyson Field
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520960432
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L.A. Rebellion written by Allyson Field and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African, Caribbean, and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group—including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis—shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, contextualizing the group's film practices and offering sustained analyses of the wide range of works, with particular attention to newly discovered films and lesser-known filmmakers. Based on extensive archival work and preservation, this collection includes a complete filmography of the movement, over 100 illustrations (most of which are previously unpublished), and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is an indispensible sourcebook for scholars and enthusiasts, establishing the key role played by the L.A. Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles.

Author : Seán Crosson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000172503
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport, Film and National Culture written by Seán Crosson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. This is the first collection dedicated to examining the intersection of these popular cultural forces within specific national contexts. Covering films of all types, from Hollywood blockbusters to regional documentaries and newsreels, the book considers how filmic depictions of sport have configured and informed distinctive national cultures, societies and identities. Featuring case studies from 11 national contexts across 6 continents – including North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania – it reveals the common and contrasting approaches that have emerged within sport cinema in differing national contexts. This is fascinating and important reading for all students and researchers working in film, media, cultural studies or sport, and for broader enthusiasts of both sport and film.

Author : Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture written by Gary Hoppenstand and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia describes all aspects of world culture, broken down into six regional categories, discussing the art, dance, fashion, food, pastimes, periodicals, recreation, and transportation of each region.

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 : Sulaiman Addonia
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451298
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silence Is My Mother Tongue written by Sulaiman Addonia and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice. With this cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia details the textures and rhythms of everyday life in a refugee camp, and questions what it means to be an individual when one has lost all that makes a home or a future. Intimate and subversive, Silence Is My Mother Tongue dissects the ways society wages war on women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment.