Popular Ethiopian Cinema

Author : Michael W. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350227422

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Popular Ethiopian Cinema by Michael W. Thomas Pdf

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,Alessandro Jedlowski,Aboneh Ashagrie
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1611862922

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Cine-Ethiopia by Michael W. Thomas,Alessandro Jedlowski,Aboneh Ashagrie Pdf

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,Alessandro Jedlowski,Aboneh Ashagrie
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781628953558

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Cine-Ethiopia by Michael W. Thomas,Alessandro Jedlowski,Aboneh Ashagrie Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110878191

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Africa Film & Tv by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeff Pearce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510718746

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Prevail by Jeff Pearce Pdf

It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean for a white-knuckle showdown with Italian ships, riots broke out in major cities all over the United States. Italian planes dropped poison gas on Ethiopian troops, bombed Red Cross hospitals, and committed atrocities that were never deemed worthy of a war crimes tribunal. But unlike the many other depressing tales of Africa that crowd book shelves, this is a gripping thriller, a rousing tale of real-life heroism in which the Ethiopians come back from near destruction and win. Tunnelling through archive records, tracking down survivors still alive today, and uncovering never-before-seen photos, Jeff Pearce recreates a remarkable era and reveals astonishing new findings. He shows how the British Foreign Office abandoned the Ethiopians to their fate, while Franklin Roosevelt had an ambitious peace plan that could have changed the course of world history—had Chamberlain not blocked him with his policy on Ethiopia. And Pearce shows how modern propaganda techniques, the post-war African world, and modern peace movements all were influenced by this crucial conflict—a war in Africa that truly changed the world. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Kevin Donnelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054300762

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Pop Music in British Cinema by Kevin Donnelly Pdf

A systematic guide to where and how pop music appears in British cinema, telling the story and recording the facts of the pop-film relationship decade by decade.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : IND:39000000788849

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Ethiopia Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Siegbert Uhlig
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059981806

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Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C by Siegbert Uhlig Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011679722

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Soviet Film by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allyson Field
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520960435

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L.A. Rebellion by Allyson Field Pdf

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
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000172508

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Sport, Film and National Culture by Seán Crosson Pdf

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 : Sulaiman Addonia
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644451298

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Silence Is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia Pdf

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.

Author : D. Berghahn,C. Sternberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230295070

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European Cinema in Motion by D. Berghahn,C. Sternberg Pdf

This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe. It offers a comprehensive theoretical and analytical discussion of a highly productive creative sector and documents the spectrum of this area of exploration in European, transnational and World Cinema studies.

Author : Jonathan Buchsbaum
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015028720954

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Cinema Engagé by Jonathan Buchsbaum Pdf

Author : Gerald Mast,Bruce F. Kawin
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : PSU:000058291207

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A Short History of the Movies by Gerald Mast,Bruce F. Kawin Pdf

The ninth edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition scrupulously accurate in its details, up-to-date, free of jargon that has made it the most widely adopted textbook for college courses in film history, and now includes a fresh look at "Persistence of Vision" and a new chapter on digital cinema. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the first movements captured on celluloid, to the early Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the "Hollywood Renaissance" of the 1960s and 1970s, to the pictures and their technology appearing in the multiplexes and living rooms of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship, recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic.