03916nam 2200709 450 991045314300332120220205004639.01-4426-6187-91-4426-7017-710.3138/9781442670174(CKB)2550000000106069(EBL)3277537(SSID)ssj0000717199(PQKBManifestationID)11412628(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000717199(PQKBWorkID)10725284(PQKB)10767494(CEL)438843(OCoLC)772396220(CaBNVSL)slc00228124(MiAaPQ)EBC3277537(MiAaPQ)EBC4671128(DE-B1597)464003(OCoLC)1013938867(OCoLC)944178524(DE-B1597)9781442670174(Au-PeEL)EBL4671128(CaPaEBR)ebr11256853(OCoLC)958580986(EXLCZ)99255000000010606920160922h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace under reconstruction in German cinema Robert Stemmle's Toxi /Angelica FennerToronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (294 p.)German and European Studies1-4426-4008-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. A Changing Postwar Landscape --2. Toxi's Allegorical Narrative: Adjoining Reality and Fantasy --3. Genealogy, Geography, and the Search for Origins --4. 'Black' Market Goods, White Consumer Culture --5. The Reterritorialization of Enjoyment in the Adenauer Era --6. Intertextual Echoes --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --IndexRace 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 family when they encounter an Afro-German child seeking adoption, herein broaching issues of integration at a time when the American civil rights movement was gaining momentum and encountering violent resistance.Perceptions of 'Blackness' in Toxi demonstrate continuities with those prevailing in Wilhelmine Germany, but also signal the influence of American social science discourse and tropes originating in icons of American popular culture, such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, Birth of a Nation, and several Shirley Temple films. By applying a Cultural Studies approach to individual film sequences, publicity photos, and press reviews, Angelica Fenner relates West German discourses around race and integration to emerging economic and political anxieties, class antagonism, and the reinstatement of conventional gender roles.The film Toxi is now available on DVD from the DEFA Film Library.German and European studies.Race in motion picturesBlack people in motion picturesRace relations in motion picturesElectronic books.Race in motion pictures.Black people in motion pictures.Race relations in motion pictures.791.43/72Fenner Angelica969824MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453143003321Race under reconstruction in German cinema2204342UNINA