Bücher von Heide Fehrenbach

Heide Fehrenbach analyses the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film - and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship - during a period of abrupt transition to democracy.

Tells the story of how troubled race relations among American occupation soldiers, and black-white mixing within Germany, shaped German notions of race after 1945. This book explores how racial ideologies are altered through transnational contact accompanying war and regime change, even in the intimate areas of sex and reproduction.