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The life and times of Sara Baartman : "The Hottentot Venus"
Title
The life and times of Sara Baartman : "The Hottentot Venus" / Dominant 7, Mail & Guardian Television, France 3 and SABC 2. present ; a film by Zola Maseko ; produced by Philip Brooks and Harriet Gavshon ; directed by Zola Maseko.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Icarus Films, [between 2008 and 2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as a television program in 1998.
A foreign television program (Great Britain).
Public performance rights granted.
Camera, Giulio Biccari ; editor, Lise Beaulieu ; assistant director, Christian Docin-Julien ; sound, Karen Boswall, Robin Harris ; narration written by Christian Docin-Julien ; original music composed and performed by Pops Mohamed ; performed by Gloria Bosman.
Closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.
Summary
A documentary of the life a Khoikhoi woman who was taken from South Africa in 1810 and exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and ideas for "The Hottentot Venus" (particularly the interest in her sexual anatomy) swept through British popular culture. A court battle waged by abolitionists to free her from her exhibitors failed. In 1814, a year before her death, she was taken to France and became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality.
Variant and related titles
Hottentot Venus
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 06, 2017
Credits
Camera, Giulio Biccari ; editor, Lise Beaulieu ; assistant director, Christian Docin-Julien ; sound, Karen Boswall, Robin Harris ; narration written by Christian Docin-Julien ; original music composed and performed by Pops Mohamed ; performed by Gloria Bosman.
Performers
Commentary: Phillip Tobias, Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Yvette Abrahams, Steve Martin, Brian Daubney.
Voices, Zola Maseko, Adrian Brown, Hlengiwe Farasani.
System details note
DVD-R (NTSC); full screen.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biography.
Documentary television programs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Dominant 7 (Firm), production company.
Mail & Guardian Television, production company.
Société nationale de programme France-Régions, production company.
South African Broadcasting Corporation, production company.
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