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  • Metropolis? no thanks! Ljubljana in Slovenian cinema during the socialist modernisation period (1945-1969)
    Stanković, Peter
    The city of Ljubljana is one of the most recurring Slovenian film locations. It would be interesting to find out, therefore, precisely how it is presented in Slovenian films. This article is based on ... a semiological analysis of all Slovenian feature-length movies shot during the quick modernisation period of the country of Yugoslavia (and its Socialist Republic of Slovenia), beginning after the Second World War and ending in the late 60s, which are mostly set in Ljubljana. The results suggest that Slovenian filmmakers at that time were not comfortable with the processes of modernisation and urbanisation of the city. This point could be discerned from two opposing yet interrelated representations of the city in the analysed sample. In the films in which the distinct signs of modernisation are largely absent, Ljubljana is presented as a pleasant or even beautiful city, while in the films in which the signs of modernisation are present, Ljubljana is shown as a neurotic and alienated place. Such representations could be explained by relatively low status of urbanity in the Slovenian culture
    Source: Studies in Eastern European cinema. - ISSN 2040-350X (Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2019, str. 205-222)
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2019
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 36543837
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