Iconic Turns Central and Eastern Europe

Iconic Turns Central and Eastern Europe Regional Perspectives in Global Context Series Editors Constantin Iordachi Central European University, Budapest Maciej Janowski Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Balázs Trencsényi Central European University, Budapest VOLUME 3 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/cee Iconic Turns Nation and Religion in Eastern European Cinema since 1989 Edited by Liliya Berezhnaya & Christian Schmitt LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013 The authors have to best knowledge searched to settle copyrights. When copyright-owners could not be traced or do think they may have a claim, they can address the authors to settle the dispute within the regular borders of the law. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Iconic turns : nation and religion in Eastern European cinema since 1989 / edited by Liliya Berezhnaya & Christian Schmitt. pages cm. — (Central and Eastern Europe ; 3) Includes bibliographical references and index. 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CONTENTS Contributors ..................................................................................................... vii Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... xi A Note on Transliteration ............................................................................ xiii Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Liliya Berezhnaya and Christian Schmitt Religion and Politics in Soviet and Eastern European Cinema: A Historical Survey .................................................................................... 33 Hans-Joachim Schlegel PART ONE INSTITUTIONAL POWERS Blessed Films: The Russian Orthodox Church and Patriotic Culture in the 2000s .................................................................................. 65 Stephen M. Norris Russian Film Premieres in 2010/11: Sacralizing National History and Nationalizing Religion ..................................................................... 81 Natascha Drubek Longing for the Empire: State and Orthodox Church in Russian Religious Films ........................................................................... 99 Liliya Berezhnaya A Cinematic Churchman: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in Oles Yanchuk’s Vladyka Andrey ............................................................ 121 John-Paul Himka vi contents PART TWO SACRED AND PROFANE IMAGES Rethinking History: Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs in Contemporary Russian Cinema .......................................................................................... 139 Eva Binder The Godless Czechs? Cinema, Religion, and Czech National Identity .......................................................................................................... 159 Jan Čulík Beyond the Surface, Beneath the Skin: Immanence and Transcendence in Györgi Pálfi’s Films ................................................ 183 Christian Schmitt PART THREE CONFLICT, TRAUMA, AND MEMORY Narrating the Shoah in Poland: Post-1989 Movies about Polish-Jewish Relations in Times of German Extermination Politics ........................................................................................................... 201 Maren Röger Memory, National Identity, and the Cross: Polish Documentary Films about the Smolensk Plane Crash .............................................. 217 Mirosław Przylipiak Religion Visible and Invisible: The Case of Post-Yugoslav Anti-War Films ........................................................................................... 237 Maria Falina Index ................................................................................................................... 251 CONTRIBUTORS Liliya Berezhnaya is a research fellow at the University of Münster in the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics.” She earned her MA degree from Moscow State University, and her MA and PhD in history from the Central European University, Budapest College. Her research interests are focused on comparative borderland studies, imperial and national discourses in Eastern Europe history, symbolic geography and the construction of “the other,” Ukrainian religious and cultural history, and eschatological notions in Christian traditions. Her most recent book, Death and the Afterlife in Early Modern Ukrainian Culture, is currently in production at Harrasowitz Verlag. Her Catalog of the Ukrainian Last Judg- ment Images, co-written with John-Paul Himka, has been accepted for publication by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Eva Binder is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Innsbruck. She studied English and Russian Philology in Innsbruck and Moscow and has worked at the University of Innsbruck since 1999. Her current field of research is 20th-century Russian culture, with a focus on film, media and cultural studies. Recent publications include: Migrationsliteraturen in Europa (Migrant Literatures in Europe), edited by Eva Binder and Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner (2012); “Sokurov’s Film Portraits.” (In The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov, 2011); “‘Leningrads Heldentat’: Die filmische Verarbeitung der Blockade” (“‘The Feat of Len- ingrad:’ The Siege of Leningrad in Cinema,” Osteuropa 8–9, 2011). Jan Čulík is Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glas- gow. He studied at Charles University, Prague. His publications include a study of independent Czech literature published in the West under Com- munism, Knihy za ohradou: Česká literatura vexilových nakladatelstvích 1971–1989 (1991), and a monograph on post-Communist Czech cinema, Jací jsme: Česká společnost vhraném filmu devadesátých a nultých let (2007). He has written, edited and/or translated a number of entries on 20th and 21st century Czech writers for the Dictionary of Literary Biography. An updated version of his monograph on Czech cinema has been published by Sussex Academic Press in 2012. viii contributors Natascha Drubek is a Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Regensburg where she teaches Media Studies and Slavic Studies. She completed her MA and PhD in Slavic Studies & Eastern European History at the Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität (Munich) where she also completed her post- doctoral qualifications, published in 2012 (Russisches Licht. Von der Ikone zum vorrevolutionären Kino). She was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Film School FAMU in Prague with the project “Hypertextual Film Presentation” (www.hyperkino.net). She is co-editor of Das Zeit-Bild im osteuropäischen Film nach 1945 (2010), editor of the “Film & Screen Media” section of www.ARTMargins.com (University of California), and co-editor of the series “osteuropa medial.” Currently, she is researching anti-religious films of the first two Soviet decades. Maria Falina is a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer at Central European University, Budapest. She earned her MA degree from Moscow State Uni- versity, and her second MA and PhD in Comparative History from the Central European University with a dissertation on Pyrrhic Victory: East Orthodox Christianity, Politics, and Serbian Nationalism in the Interwar Period (2011). She is a member of the research project “Negotiating Moder- nity: History of Modern Political Thought in East-Central Europe” (Center for Advanced Study, Sofia). Her fields of research include the history of political thought in Eastern Europe, religious studies and nationalism. She has published on clerical fascism and the nationalization of religion in the Balkans. Her current research project focuses on the comparative history of religious communities in 20th century Yugoslavia. John-Paul Himka is professor in the Department of History and Classics and director of the Research Program on Religion and Culture, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, at the University of Alberta. He earned his PhD at the University of Michigan. His publications include Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthe- nian National Movement in Galicia, 1867–1900

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