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Touki Bouki
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Djibril Diop Mambéty’s exuberant, inventive and urgent film Touki Bouki (The Journey of the Hyena) (1973) follows a young couple, Mory (Magaye Niang) and Anta (Mareme Niang), who dream of leaving their home in Dakar, Senegal for an imagined better life in Paris. Rosalind Galt’s insightful...
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See moreA study of Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1973 film Touki Bouki (The Journey of the Hyena) in the BFI Film Classics series.
A study of Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1973 film Touki Bouki (The Journey of the Hyena) in the BFI Film Classics series.
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Djibril Diop Mambéty’s exuberant, inventive and urgent film Touki Bouki (The Journey of the Hyena) (1973) follows a young couple, Mory (Magaye Niang) and Anta (Mareme Niang), who dream of leaving their home in Dakar, Senegal for an imagined better life in Paris.
Rosalind Galt’s insightful study analyses Touki Bouki’s cinematic worlds, from its narrative of postcolonial migration to its influence by international film style, both nonetheless grounded in African visual cultures and critical perspectives. Touki Bouki explores the intertwined histories of the postcolonial and the transnational, showing how the aesthetic and political ideas found in the experimentation of cinematic modernisms and New Waves are as African as they are European.
Galt’s study interweaves a conceptual framework of world cinema studies and anti/decolonial theory with close analysis of Touki Bouki’s innovative audiovisual forms and its representations of desire and identity in postcolonial Senegal. Providing a detailed reading of the film’s themes and cinematic style, she argues for its classic status and for its long-lasting influence on world cinema.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781839029004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Illustration: 60 colour illus
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 188.0mm
Weight: 168g
Pages: 104
About the Author
Rosalind Galt is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Alluring Monsters: the Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization (2021), Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image (2011) and The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map (2006); the co-author with Karl Schoonover of Queer Cinema in the World and the co-editor with Karl Schoonover of Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories (2010).
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