Showing & Telling; Hyenas & Bamako

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Becky

I came away from the two films with very different reactions. Not until I put my “ENGL-13 thinking cap” on did I see how similar the underlying subject for both films was. In Hyenas, Mambety the filmmaker tells the story (or a part of the story) of neocolonialism in Senegal (nestled in a larger statement [...]

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“As rich as the IMF”

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Becky

It’s very tempting for me to reduce the film to a portrayal of Ramatou as the IMF and Colobane as an African nation.  Ramatou bring materialism and wealth. The IMF and World Bank somewhat represent the return of the colonial presence in a new form (all decked out with money with an air of legitimacy [...]

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