This article examines how political cartoons reflected and mobilized resistance to growing authoritarianism and the personalization of power in contemporary Serbia. The focus is on the work of Dušan Petričić, the most influential political cartoonist in Serbia, which was published in daily Politika and weekly NIN between 2012 and 2017. Petričić’s cartoons offer interesting insights into a dramatic decline of press freedom and the rise of authoritarian personalist rule in terms of both their content and political impact. The authors draw on quantitative content analysis and qualitative multimodal analysis to examine the key representational and stylistic features of Petričić’s cartoons, both as a way to understand the relationship between his aesthetics and his political statements, and in order to critically assess some of the ways in which democratization conflicts may be expressed visually. Their analysis also draws on evidence from an in-depth interview with the author. In combining a systematic analysis of key visual patterns across a sample of cartoons with a comprehensive evaluation of how both visual and linguistic features work together to promote anti-authoritarian ideals and resistance, the article offers a framework to understand the political import of aesthetics in Serbia’s democratization process.

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塞尔维亚政治漫画中的视觉隐喻和威权主义

本文探讨了政治漫画如何反映和动员对当代塞尔维亚日益增长的威权主义和权力个性化的抵制。重点是塞尔维亚最有影响力的政治漫画家 Dušan Petričić 的作品，该漫画在 2012 年至 2017 年间发表在每日 Politika 和每周 NIN 上。 Petričić 的漫画提供了有关新闻自由急剧下降和专制个人主义者崛起的有趣见解在内容和政治影响方面进行统治。作者利用定量内容分析和定性多模态分析来检验 Petričić 漫画的主要表现和风格特征，这两者都是理解他的美学与政治陈述之间关系的一种方式，并且为了批判性地评估民主化冲突的一些可视化表达方式。他们的分析还借鉴了对作者的深入采访的证据。通过对卡通样本中关键视觉模式的系统分析与对视觉和语言特征如何共同促进反独裁理想和抵抗的综合评估，本文提供了一个框架来理解美学在塞尔维亚的政治意义。民主化进程。