Past Research
Edgar Reitz's Heimat; the Heimat genre; terrorism in German cinema; the critical Heimat film
Publications:
'The fourth generation: legacies of violence as quest for identity in post-unification terrorism films', in German Cinema since Unification ed. by David Clarke (London: continuum, 2006), pp. 11-42
Modern Times? German Literature and Arts Beyond Political Chronologies. Kontinuitäten der Kultur: 1925-1955, ed. by Gustav Frank, Rachel Palfreyman, Stefan Scherer (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2005)
'A Thoroughly Modern Auteur: Reconstructing Die freudlose Gasse/Constructing G. W. Pabst', in Modern Times? German Literature and Arts Beyond Political Chronologies. Kontinuitäten der Kultur: 1925-1955, pp. 335-52
'Green Strands on the Silver Screen? Heimat and Environment in the German Cinema', in The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxieties, Visions, Realities ed. by Axel Goodbody (New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2002), pp. 171-86
Elizabeth Boa and Rachel Palfreyman, Heimat - A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990, Oxford: OUP, 2000
Edgar Reitz's Heimat: Histories, Traditions, Fictions, Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang, 2000
'Viewers and Villagers: Realism and Authenticity in Edgar Reitz's Heimat' in German Studies Towards the Millennium: CUTG Keele 1999, eds Chris Hall and David Rock, Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang, 2000, pp. 77-89
`Reflections of the `Heimat' Genre: Intertextual Reference in Reitz's Heimat', German Life and Letters, October 1997, 50: 4 (Women's Studies Special Number), pp. 529-43; reprinted in Littler, Margaret, ed., Gendering German Studies: New Perspectives on German Literature and Culture, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997