Popular Ethiopian Cinema

Love and Other Genres

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvMichael W. Thomas,UK) Thomas, Michael W. (SOAS University of London,Lúcia Nagib

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-10-06
Mått236 x 162 x 20 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWorld Cinema
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350227408

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Michael W. Thomas is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethiopian Screen Worlds on the European Research Council funded project, African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film Studies. Based at SOAS, University of London, UK. He is the co-editor of Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa (2018) and, as well as having pioneering scholarship on Amharic cinema published in various academic journals and collected volumes, he also produces practice-based research through video-essays and documentaries.

Introduction: Courting and the Curiosity of Cinema in Addis Ababa PART 1: THE HISTORY1: Film Exhibition in Ethiopia2: Film Production in EthiopiaPART 2: THE FILMS3: The “yefiker film/love film”4: The Rise of the “assikiñ yefiker film/humorous love film”5: Violence and Order in the “lib anteltay film/suspense film”6: The Absence of Romance and the “yebeteseb film/family film”PART 3: THE INDUSTRY7: Promoting Amharic Film Genres8: Producing Amharic Film Genres9: Perceiving Amharic Film GenresConclusion: Of Fiker and FilmBibliography