Edgar Reitz's Heimat; Histories, Traditions, Fictions

ISBN-13: 9783906765877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 236 str.

Rachel Palfreyman

Opis

This study of Edgar Reitz s 1984 film saga Heimat explores the cultural contexts of the Heimat tradition and examines the political debate surrounding the film s reception. Responses were largely supportive but some critics were disturbed by an apparent tendency to induce a sense of uncritical nostalgia in viewers. Reitz, by contrast, had wanted to make a film which would help people confront their memories of the Third Reich. The author tests hostile critiques not only against the film s elliptical narrative but also against Reitz s filmic techniques. She examines the interplay of realism and authenticity, and shows how Reitz dramatizes the confrontation between modernity and rural communities, while consciously alluding to the problematic and much-derided Heimat genre."

Spis treści

Contents: The Heimat Complex: Contexts and Intertexts - History, the Historikerstreit and Heimat - Viewers and Villagers: Soap Operas, Realism and Authenticity - The Time and the Place: Chronotopes and (Dialectical) Images of Modernity - From Heimat to Die Zweite Heimat : Nature into Art.

O autorze

The Author: Rachel Palfreyman was born in 1968 and attended the Universities of Bradford, Nottingham and Manchester, completing her Ph.D. in 1998 (University of Manchester). She is now a Lecturer in German at the University of Nottingham.