Iconic Turns: Nation and Religion in Eastern European Cinema since 1989

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Liliya Berezhnaya, Christian Schmitt
BRILL, 2013 M06 1 - 270 pages
Collection of documents from a section of the World Council of Churches Archives, dealing with Germany and fifteen other countries during the period 1932-1957. Documents include: newspapers, press clippings, press releases, telegrams, correspondence, minutes, manuscripts and personal notes. The collection also includes reports on the situation of the Jews in several European countries, as well as correspondence and personal letters of such notable individuals as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, George Bell, Hans Schönfeld, Karl Barth, James McDonald, Georges Casalis, Adolf Freudenberg, Martin Niemöller, Otto Dibelius, Gerhart Riegner, Marc Boegner, and Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft. The archives document not only the issues and events of the War, but also the beginning years of the World Council of Churches.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
A Historical Survey
33
Part One Institutional Powers
63
The Russian Orthodox Church and Patriotic Culture in the 2000s
65
Sacralizing National History and Nationalizing Religion
81
State and Orthodox Church in Russian Religious Films
99
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in Oles Yanchuks Vladyka Andrey
121
Part Two Sacred and Profane Images
137
The Godless Czechs? Cinema Religion and Czech National Identity
159
Immanence and Transcendence in Györgi Pálfis Films
183
Part Three Conflict Trauma and Memory
199
Post1989 Movies about PolishJewish Relations in Times of German Extermination Politics
201
Polish Documentary Films about the Smolensk Plane Crash
217
The Case of PostYugoslav AntiWar Films
237
Index
251
Copyright

Heroes Saints and Martyrs in Contemporary Russian Cinema
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