Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima’s Cinema. In Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima’s Cinema, Tekletsadik Belachew takes his research in a new direction by using Gerima’s films as inspiration for his own theological meditations. In this book, Belachew enters into the discourse of African Christian theology for which he utilizes Haile Gerima’s films as critical tools to inter rogate the racist biases and colonialist worldviews of Eurocentric Christian theology. Toward this self-consciously “imperfect journey” inspired by the cinematic tactics of Third Cinema, he takes several turns. He also reveals the influence of Haile Gerima’s father, Abba Gerima Taffere, and usefully provides lengthy trans lations of the father’s writings about history and religion.

Source: Ethiopian News August 29, 2023 14:20 UTC