Background
Gabriel was born in Ticho, Ethiopia, on September 24, 1939.
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Teshome Gabriel
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Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles University of Utah.
Career
Gabriel was considered an expert on cinema and film of Africa and the developing world. He immigrated to the United States in 1962. He obtained a bachelor"s degree in political science in 1967 and received a master"s degree in educational media in 1969, both from the University of Utah.
He continued his education at University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a master"s degree in theater arts in 1976 and a doctorate in film and television studies in 1979.
Gabriel began lecturing at University of California, Los Angeles in 1974 and became an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles 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 editor of Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures.
Additionally, Gabriel founded Tuwaf (Light), an Ethiopian journal on fine arts which is published in Amharic.
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 Panorama City, Los Angeles at the age of 70. is a website with many of his academic articles
