A5, 64 pages, Colour printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover. 2025

Sami Bouajila is one of France’s leading actors, whose four-decade-long career has drifted between the charged shores of the Mediterranean, complicating normative understandings of diasporic cinema and social relations as they relate to masculinity and alterity.

Mapping Masculinities Through the Filmography of Sami Bouajila brings together four authors to reflect on the strengths, shortcomings and nuances of his filmography, a body of work that charts France’s racialised violence towards the Maghreb while offering a kaleidoscopic meditation on racialised masculinity.

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