Description
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.
About the Author
Michael W. Thomas is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Film Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Alessandro Jedlowski is a Belgian Scientific Research Fund (F.R.S.-FNRS) postdoctoral fellow in Anthropology at the University of LiEge, Belgium, and a former Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions research fellow.
Aboneh Ashagrie is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Addis Ababa University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611862928
Author Michael W. Thomas
Format Paperback
Page Count 294
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press