The following work researches the transmission of the Western genre into the Slovene cultural environment and takes as an example the Western from the Pohorje region, Sly Foxes. Because the Western is considered to be one of the most American genres due to its specific mythology, connected with the history of the Wild West, showing battles between Native Americans and European settlers, the work researches, how the national filmography, mainly the film Sly Foxes, incorporated elements of the Slovene national identity. The first part introduces the theory of imagined communities, of the national filmography and of the cultural transmission. The second part takes that theory, applies it to a chosen film and tries to see, whether the film Sly Foxes can be considered as an example of cultural transmission and how deeply it is addressing the Slovene national identity.
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