The Historical Narrative Study Of Emile Kusturica's Films

The director of Serbia,Emil Kusturika,is a world-famous film master.His unique magical realism film aesthetic style has a profound influence on the film industry.As a director of the Balkans,known as the "European Gunpowder Barrel",he inherited the spiritual legacy of the new wave of Eastern European films.His creation expresses the historical reality and the destiny of the Balkans in a unique form and style.His works are not only loved by the people of his own country,but also highly recognized by the Western Film Festival.Among them,Daddy on Business and Underground"both won the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes International Film Festival.In geopolitics,Kusturica belongs to the sequence of Eastern European directors.His original nationality is Yugoslavia.Yugoslavia was disintegrated in 1992 because of the changing world political situation in the 1990s.The creation of Kusturica spans the important period of the death of Yugoslav leader Tito,the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the outbreak of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina,and the return to peace in the former Yugoslavia.His film theme is inseparable from the history of Yugoslavia.Nowadays,although Yugoslavia as a country no longer exists,Kusturica uses images to remind the world audience of a Yugoslavia full of passion and laughter,pain and suffering.Therefore,the movie of Kusturica is an important window that reflects the politics,nation and culture of the Balkans.This article takes Kusturica’s nine film feature films as the research object,from the perspective of postmodern historiography,according to the related theories of,historical narrative" by historian Hayden White in Post-modern Historical Narrative,This article uses the historical narrative to explain and interpret the movie text of Kusturica in an innovative way.Therefore,it is found that the Kusturica film reflects a postmodern historical view.The film questioned the objectivity and authenticity of contemporary historical truth,and used historical narrative to deconstruct the mainstream discourse of the East and the West,thus reconstrueting a subjective and private historical discourse.The first part of the thesis summarizes the research sunmary of the theme,form,style and connotation of Kusturica films,and defines Hayden White’s concept of historical narrative.It reviews the history of Yugoslavia and clarifies the theoretical support of writing.That is,applying the framework of historical narrative to the film research of the director.In the second part,we briefly describe the life and creative practice of Kusturica in chronological order,and point out the great historieal signifieanee of his works.On this basis,all the films of the director are divided according to the historical narrative.The specific characteristics of each theme in the plot arrangement are summarized.The third part is based on three rhetorical strategies,namely,the director’s iconie film language,the recurring allegorical signifier and the recurring symbolic metaphor,exploring his thinking about the real society in the Balkans,thus forming a director’s historieal narrative mode.The fourth part explores the deep connection between the Kusturica film and the national identity of the former Yugoslavia and the history of the country,as well as the complex relationship with Western capitalist society,explaining the culture destiny of Kusturica as an Eastern European film director.,eventually find out the discourse mechanism behind his construction of historical narrative.