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CONSTRUCTS OF SLOVENIANNESS IN SLOVENIAN PARTISAN FILMS

Peter STANKOVIĆ orcid.org/0000-0002-2797-4126 ; Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana

Abstract

The article addresses the question, whether there could be
identified a consistent pattern of representations of
Slovenianness in Slovenian partisan films, the film genre
about communist-led guerrilla fighters (so-called 'partisans'),
and their struggle against the German and Italian occupying
forces during WW II. The analysis of all feature films made in
this genre shows that the official communist discourse on
Slovenian national identity, at least as revealed in the
partisan films, was in Slovenia in many respects not really
along the orthodox Marxist lines of understanding national
identity as an essentially disposable bourgeois ideological
construct, since it actively encouraged it, to a large extent
even in terms of the established, conservative construct of
Slovenianness as something that in its essence is likened to a
simple, rustic life in the midst of unspoiled nature. In the
films made after the late 1960s, however, the pattern
changes and the Slovenian partisan films with their new,
distinctive urban character turn into a medium of
restructuring of national identity.

Keywords

representation; constructivism; national identity; Slovene partisan film; Slovenianness

Hrčak ID:

29465

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/29465

Publication date:

31.10.2008.

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