Teshome H. Gabriel (September 24, 1939 – June 14, 2010) was an

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n-born

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cinema scholar and professor at the

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in Los Angeles. Gabriel was considered an expert on cinema and film of Africa and the

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. A colleague at UCLA,

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, noted that Gabriel was "one of the first scholars to theorize in a critical fashion about

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cinema." Gabriel was born in Ticho,

, on September 24, 1939. He immigrated to the United States in 1962. He obtained a

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in 1967 and received a

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in educational media in 1969, both from the

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. He continued his education at

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, where he earned a master's degree in

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in 1976 and a

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and

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in 1979. Gabriel began lecturing at UCLA in 1974 and became an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1981. Gabriel's books included ''Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation'' in 1982 and ''Third Cinema: Exploration of Nomadic Aesthetics & Narrative Communities''. He co-edited ''Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged'', which was published in 1993. He served as the

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of ''Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures''. Additionally, Gabriel founded ''Tuwaf'' (''Light''), an Ethiopian journal on

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which is published in

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. He served on ''Tuwaf's'' editorial board from 1987 until 1991. Teshome Gabriel died of cardiac arrest on June 14, 2010, at Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center in

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at the age of 70. He was survived by his wife, Maaza Woldemusie; daughter, Mediget; and son, Tsegaye.

References

External links

* https://www.teshomegabriel.net/ is a website with many of his academic articles. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabriel, Teshome 1939 births 2010 deaths Ethiopian emigrants to the United States Film educators UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television faculty UCLA Film School alumni University of Utah alumni