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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.
'Batman's Hill, South Staffs' is non-linear sequence of poems set
largely in Staffordshire, between 1961 and 1972. Quietly
contemplative and playful with language, the poems derive their
energy from the dialogue between memory and hindsight, the moments
where the present - physically, or through lived experience -
throws a clear unrelenting light on the past, 'coming for you in
the dark'.
""And, as always, the wake of the sun caused temporal havoc. A
Razalian hour passed normally enough, then shrank to ten minutes,
then sneezed out a good half-day, then stabilised at an hour and a
bit. Bobbing on the top of planetary time like corks in a bucket,
the three moons spread out and were still - this time like kids
glued to a screen. For, as the sunlight disappeared and the minutes
passed more confidently, Razalia shook off its desolation. Across
its face, a million torches shone under the amethyst skies:
Razalian faces, each its own sun." Small, unfinished, more like a
blueprint for a world than the real thing, Razalia props up one end
of the Arc of the Fifteen Planets. In some places, its landscape
looks like the efforts of a water-colourist suddenly called away
from his easel. The Razalians live with the gaps - those spaces of
unfathomable white - in many of their ridges, valleys, forests. And
then the white begins to move..."
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