Identity and Conflict in the Balkans

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Identity and Conflict in the Balkans

• ILC 140
• Fifteenth Week

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Announcements

• Questionnaire
• Evaluations

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News

• PM assassination case

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Reading-Discussion Assignment

• Ivo Andrics Bridge on the Drina

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First Sections

• History of the bridge
• Cultures, hierarchies, identities
• History and myth
• Power struggles
• Violence

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Geography and terminolgy

• Drina River
• Viegrad
• Kapia (kapija) and sofa

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Characters

• Grand Vezir Mehmed Pasha (Rade)
• Kraljevic Marko
• Radisav of Unite
• Abidaga
• Tosun Effendi
• Maestro Antonio
• Vila(s)
• Man from Plevlje
• Merdjan

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Theo Angelopoulos Ulysses Gaze
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Background of Director

• One of new directors of 60s
• One of few to still be making films
• Philosophy, metaphor, symbol difficult films
• Most rooted in Greek history 1930s-70s
• Voyage to Cythera 1984 Beekeeper 1986 Landscape
  in the Mist 1988 Suspended Step of the Stork 1991

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Background of Film
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Ulysses Gaze 1996

• Thematic source Homers Odyssey
• Quest of A through the Balkans
• Ambitious, thoughtful,
• Excellent sound track music by Eleni Karaindrou

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Greece 20th Century
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Albania 20th Century
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The Quest

• Thessaloniki
• Florinda
• Korytsa Korçë
• Monastir - Bitola

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History

• Film in the Balkans
• Old woman at the border references to Civil War
  (and sister)
• Refugees in the 1990s