Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Liliya Berezhnaya and Christian Schmitt -- Religion and Politics in Soviet and Eastern European Cinema: A Historical Survey / Hans-Joachim Schlegel -- Blessed Films: The Russian Orthodox Church and Patriotic Culture in the 2000s / Stephen M. Norris -- Russian Film Premieres in 2010/11: Sacralizing National History and Nationalizing Religion / Natascha Drubek -- Longing for the Empire: State and Orthodox Church in Russian Religious Films / Liliya Berezhnaya -- A Cinematic Churchman: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in Oles Yanchuk’s Vladyka Andrey / John-Paul Himka -- Rethinking History: Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs in Contemporary Russian Cinema / Eva Binder -- The Godless Czechs? Cinema, Religion, and Czech National Identity / Jan Čulík -- Beyond the Surface, Beneath the Skin: Immanence and Transcendence in Györgi Pálfi’s Films / Christian Schmitt -- Narrating the Shoah in Poland: Post-1989 Movies about Polish-Jewish Relations in Times of German Extermination Politics / Maren Röger -- Memory, National Identity, and the Cross: Polish Documentary Films about the Smolensk Plane Crash / Mirosław Przylipiak -- Religion Visible and Invisible: The Case of Post-Yugoslav Anti-War Films / Maria Falina -- Index.

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After the epochal turn of 1989 a new wave of movies dealing with the complex entanglement of religious and national identity has emerged in the eastern part of Europe. There has been plenty of evidence for a return of nationalism, while the predicated \'return of religion(s)\' is envisaged on a larger scale as a global phenomenon. The book suggests that in the wake of the historical turns of 1989, an \'iconic turn\' has taken place in Eastern Europe – in the form of a renewed cinematic commitment to make sense of the world in religious and/or national terms. \'Iconic Turns\' combines theoretical articles on the subject with case studies, bringing together researchers from different national backgrounds and disciplines, such as history, literary and film studies. Contributors include: Eva Binder, Jan Čulík, Liliya Berezhnaya, Christian Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Schlegel, Maren Röger, Mirosław Przylipiak, Stephen Norris, John-Paul Himka, Maria Falina, and Natascha Drubek.

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