Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema: Robert Stemmle's Toxi

by Angelica Fenner

Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema investigates postwar racial formations via a pivotal West German film by one of the most popular and prolific directors of the era. The release of Robert Stemmle's Toxi (1952) coincided with the enrolment in West German schools of the first five hundred Afro-German children fathered by African-American occupation soldiers. The didactic plot traces the ideological conflicts that arise among members of a patrician...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442640081
• ISBN13: 9781442640085
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher