Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2018), xx, 295 pp.
Series: African Humanities and the Arts
ISBN 978-1-61186-292-8 (pbk); 978-1-60917-572-6 (ebook); 978-1-62896-355-7 (ebook)
Introduction. Introducing the context and specificities of film history in the Horn of Africa / Alessandro Jedlowski, Michael W. Thomas & Aboneh Ashagrie, vii
From (Yeseytan bet-Devil's house) to 7D: mapping cinema's multidimensional manifestations in Ethiopia from its inception to contemporary developments / Michael W. Thomas, 1
Fascist imperial cinema: an account of imaginary places / Giuseppe Fidotta, 27
The revolution has been televised: fact, fiction and spectacle in the 1970s and 80s / Kate Cowcher, 45
"The dead speaking to the living": religio-cultural symbolisms in the Amharic films of Haile Gerima / Tekletsadik Belachew, 67
Whether to laugh or to cry? Explorations of genre in Amharic fiction feature films / Michael W. Thomas, 93
Women's participation in Ethiopian cinema / Eyerusalem Kassahun, 119
The new frontiers of Ethiopian television industry: TV serials and sitcoms / Bitania Taddesse, 141
Migration in Ethiopian films, at home and abroad / Alessandro Jedlowski, 161
A wide people with a small screen: Oromo cinema at home and in diaspora / Teferi Nigussie Tafa and Steven W. Thomas, 181
Hope, forced migration and desire of elsewhere in Eritrean diaspora films / Aurora Massa and Osvaldo Costantini, 207
Debebe Eshetu (actor and director), interviewed / Aboneh Ashagrie, 227
Behailu Wassie (scriptwriter and director), interviewed / Michael W. Thomas, 239
Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn (director and producer), interviewed / Alessandro Jedlowski, 249
From (Yeseytan bet-Devil's house) to 7D: mapping cinema's multidimensional manifestations in Ethiopia from its inception to contemporary developments / Michael W. Thomas, 1
Fascist imperial cinema: an account of imaginary places / Giuseppe Fidotta, 27
The revolution has been televised: fact, fiction and spectacle in the 1970s and 80s / Kate Cowcher, 45
"The dead speaking to the living": religio-cultural symbolisms in the Amharic films of Haile Gerima / Tekletsadik Belachew, 67
Whether to laugh or to cry? Explorations of genre in Amharic fiction feature films / Michael W. Thomas, 93
Women's participation in Ethiopian cinema / Eyerusalem Kassahun, 119
The new frontiers of Ethiopian television industry: TV serials and sitcoms / Bitania Taddesse, 141
Migration in Ethiopian films, at home and abroad / Alessandro Jedlowski, 161
A wide people with a small screen: Oromo cinema at home and in diaspora / Teferi Nigussie Tafa and Steven W. Thomas, 181
Hope, forced migration and desire of elsewhere in Eritrean diaspora films / Aurora Massa and Osvaldo Costantini, 207
Debebe Eshetu (actor and director), interviewed / Aboneh Ashagrie, 227
Behailu Wassie (scriptwriter and director), interviewed / Michael W. Thomas, 239
Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn (director and producer), interviewed / Alessandro Jedlowski, 249
