Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima's CinemaThis book is an interdisciplinary theological exploration of Haile Gerima's cinema, an Ethiopian filmmaker and storyteller who successfully translated African folkloric orality and wove other indigenous art forms into the language of cinema. Gerima's five decades legacy of Pan African cinema embodies 'symbolic resistance' against Afro pessimistic and stereotypical mis disrepresentations, both manifestations of neo colonialism. In response, he uses