Milja Radovic is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Edinburgh, where she is collaborating on the Religion and Ethics in Making of War and Peace Project, investigating the role of the independent media in shaping of civil society in the Balkans.

• 1. Introduction: Approaching Film and Religion from a Transnational Perspective 2. From National to Transnational 3. The Balkans: Nationalist-Religious Ideology, Identity and Conflict in Cinema 4. Re-building Identity through Cinematic Representations of Cultural Myths 5. Hollywood Cinema as an Ideological Factory: Nation as 'Destiny,' Apocalypse and Foreignness 6. Cross-cultural Representations of Religion, Identity and the Mythical 'Other' 7. Conclusion

"This is an original and compelling book by an author with first-hand knowledge of European cinema and religious and national ideologies which offers something genuinely different to current religion-film analysis. The use of American civil religion will comprise a fascinating portal for those not aware of the nuances and complexities of Balkan and Russian religious and national identities to become familiar with wider debates in the way in which cinema can not only reflect but affect ideological constructions." – Chris Deacy, University of Kent, UK