Rachel Palfreyman

Biographic Data

ID5777632
NAMERachel Palfreyman
GIVEN NAMESRachel
FAMILY NAMEPalfreyman
SIGNATUREPALFREYMAN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nottingham
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX0

  • Gender, Migration, and Magical Naturalism in Edgar Reitz's Die Andere Heimat (2013)

    Open AccessRachel PalfreymanARTICLEGerman Life and Letters2019

    A gendered understanding of the concept of Heimat exposes difficulties with gender representation in Heimat film and writing in both the traditional and critical modes. Women can be so closely aligned with the construction or even embodiment of the Heimat that their own access to it is in doubt. Reitz's Heimat (1984) was criticised as well as celebrated for its representation of the maternal Heimat constructed by Maria seemingly for the benefit o…

  • Sex and Politics: Introduction

    Open AccessMargaret Littler, Franziska Meyer et al.ARTICLEGerman Life and Letters2011

  • Life and Death in the Shadows: Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Ahmed

    Open AccessRachel PalfreymanARTICLEGerman Life and Letters2011

    This article examines the reception of the pioneering German animator Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) with particular reference to her feature film Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926). I discuss the tendency to praise Reiniger and her work, rather than analyse it in depth, and argue that such neglect is in part due to the difficulty of contextualising Reiniger combined with her technical virtuosity which sees her relegated to ‘craft’ rather than a…

  • Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering

    Open AccessPaul Cooke-see C80107, Paul Cooke et al.BOOKScreening War2010

    Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.

  • Heimat: A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990

    Osman Durrani, Elizabeth Boa et al.ARTICLEThe Modern Language Review2003

    1. Introduction: Mapping the Terrain 2. Heimat at the Turn of the Century: The Heimat Art Movement and Clara Viebigs Eifel Fictions 3. A Land Fit for Heroes? Ernst Wiechert's Das einfache Leben and Marieluise Fleisser's Pioniere in Ingolstadt 4. (Un)happy Families: Heimat and Anti-Heimat in West German Film and Theatre 5. At Home in the GDR? Heimat in East German Film 6. Heimat Past and Present - A Land Fit for Youth: Lenz's Deutschstunde, Emil N…

  • The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxieties, Visions, Realities

    Carl Amery, Anja Baukloh et al.BOOKCulture of German Environmentalism2002

  • Heimat A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890–1990

    Elizabeth Boa, Rachel PalfreymanBOOKHeimat, a German dream2000

    The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before the First World War; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialecti…

  • Reflections of the ‘Heimat’ Genre: Intertextual Reference in Reitz's HBMT

    Open AccessRachel PalfreymanARTICLEGerman Life and Letters1997

    This article examines two intertexts of Edgar Reitz's Heimat La Habanera (Detlev Sierck 1937) and Heimat (Carl Froelich 1938). Both films set ‘Heimat’ against the Other: La Habanera is a study of a woman who is irresistibly attracted to the exotic, only to be disappointed by its dark side. Heimat is less obviously National Socialist propaganda, but concerns a woman who returns from an alluring foreign place to the ‘Heimat’ and is recuperated into…