This book is positioned within the emerging field of transnational cinema, and offers a groundbreaking study of the relationship between transnational cinema and ideology. The book focuses in particular on the complex ways in which religion, identity and cultural myths interact in specific cinematic representations of ideology. Radovic illustrates the ways in which these issues, represented and framed by films, are transmitted beyond their nation-state borders and local ideologies in which they originated - and questions whether therefore one can have an understanding of transnational cinema as a platform for political dialogue.

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