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Stories from the Fireplace : Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima's Cinema
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Praise For This Book
- Acknowledgment
- Contents
- Foreword
- Abstract
- Chapter 1
- General Introduction
- Chapter 2
- Haile Gerima: An African Cinematic Griot
- Introduction
- A. Around-the-Fire Education
- B. Invisible Colonialism as Mis-education
- C. Resisting Invisibility and Subservient Roles
- D. Inspirations from Third Cinema and "L.A. Rebellions"
- E. History of (mis)representations
- F. Demystifying Stereotypical Images and Stories
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3
- Theology of Icon and Iconic Cinema
- Introduction
- A. Artistic Inspirations Through Ethiopian Icons
- B. What is after all an Icon? Definitions and Redefinitions
- C. Christ, the Icon Par Excellence
- D. Images of the Image: Humans as Icons and Icon Makers
- E. Human Iconography
- F. Ethiopian Iconography and African Theology
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4
- African Cinema as Memory-History
- Introduction
- A. Hegel's A-Historical Africa and Colonial Memory
- B. An Erasure of African Memory
- C. Africa in the Memory of the Conventional Cinema
- D. Mypheduh: "Sacred Shield" of Culture and Memory
- E. Folkloric Storytelling as a Way of Remembering
- F. Recovering Popular Memories through Ruins and Stones
- G. Theological Sankofa, "Look Back to the Future"
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5
- Folklores, African Cinematic Storytelling and Theologizing
- Introduction
- A. African Orality beyond the myth of "Primitive Art"
- B. Wax and Gold As Method of Interpreting African Cinema
- C. Silence in Folkloric Storytelling and in Cinema
- D. Griots Counterparts
- E. Myths of the Dragon
- F. Homo narratus
- Humans as Storytellers
- G. African Oral Memory of St. Mark and Folkloric Orality for Theology
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6
- Being as Communion and Person as Ubuntu
- Introduction
- A. Resisting Radical Otherness and "Non-Being"
- B. Ontology of Personhood
- C. Otherness in Communion
- D. Communion in Otherness
- E. Ubuntuism: An African Philosophy of Personhood
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- Appendix 1. An Interview with Haile Germia
- Bibliography
- Annotated Bibliography On And By Haile Gerima
- Appendix II
- Gallery
- Postscript: Poems
- Afterword
- Index
- Back cover