Flussi e riflussi: l’immagine e la rappresentazione dell’Africa tra globalizzazione e tradizione

Abstract

The article is linked to the presentation of the movie Le cri du coeur (The cry of the heart by Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1994, 86 min.). It consideres the dynamics of representation of Africa and its people in a contemporary scenario peculiar for its continuous flow of migration, information and observation, which is made not only in a oneway fashion, from the centre to the periphery, but rather by letting influences expand in either directions. Ouedraogo’s overcomes the dicotomy that tends to relegate Africa and its people to a tribal past or to an indefinite hybrid culture, by presenting a cinematographic solution which expresses a continuum between tradition and modernity.