Cine-Ethiopia : the history and politics of film in the Horn of Africa / edited by Michael W. Thomas, Alessandro Jedlowski, and Aboneh Ashagrie.

Intro; Contents; Introduction, Alessandro Jedlowski, Michael W. Thomas, and Aboneh Ashagrie; From Yeseytan Bet-Devil's House to 7D: Mapping Cinema's Multidimensional Manifestations in Ethiopia from Its Inception to Contemporary Developments, Michael W. Thomas; Fascist Imperial Cinema: An Account of Imaginary Places, Giuseppe Fidotta; The Revolution Has Been Televised: Fact, Fiction, and Spectacle in the 1970s and 1980s, Kate Cowcher; The Dead Speaking to the Living: Religio-Cultural Symbolisms in the Amharic Films of Haile Gerima, Tekletsadik Belachew.

Whether to Laugh or to Cry? Explorations of Genre in Amharic Fiction Feature Films, Michael W. ThomasWomen's Participation in Ethiopian Cinema, Eyerusaleam Kassahun; The New Frontiers of the Ethiopian Television Industry: TV Serials and Sitcoms, Bitania Tadesse; Ethiopian Cinema and the Politics of Migration, at Home and Abroad, Alessandro Jedlowski; A Wide People with a Small Screen: Oromo Cinema at Home and in Diaspora, Teferi Nigussie Tafa and Steven W. Thomas; Hope, Forced Migration, and Desire of Elsewhere in Eritrean Diaspora Films, Aurora Massa and Osvaldo Costantini.

Debebe Eshetu (actor and director), interviewed by Aboneh Ashagrie; Behailu Wassie (scriptwriter and director), interviewed by Michael W. Thomas; Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn (director and producer), interviewed by Alessandro Jedlowski; Contributors; Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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