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The question that I will be focusing on is “How is Toxi represented visually in Toxi? Does the
film racialize her via mise-en-scène and cinematography choices (how Toxi is placed within the
scene vis-à-vis the others, etc.)? Does the film develop a racialized gaze (of the camera, the
characters)?”
I will be answering this prompt in different ways. First, I will be using scenes from
the film and analyze my interpretations on it. The second part is using outside sources that
explain how the film was racialized. The first outside source that I will be using is “Race Under
Reconstruction in German Cinema”, written by Angelica Fenner. The second source is
“Representing the Afro-German in early West German cinema” written by Angelica Fenner.
This journal article is more about the history behind the Toxi film. Lastly, I will be pulling
chapter 4 “Reconstruction in Black and White: The Toxi Film” from a book “Race after Hitler”
written by Heide Fehrenbach. All of these sources will be useful and necessary for my video
presentation.
Fehrenbach, Heide. "CHAPTER FOUR. Reconstruction in Black and White: The Toxi Films". Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 107-131. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691188102-007
Fenner, Angelica. Race under Reconstruction in German Cinema: Robert Stemmle’s Toxi
(German and European Studies)
. Illustrated, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2011.
“Representing the Afro-German in Early West German Cinema: Robert Stemmle’s ‘Toxi’ - ProQuest.”
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