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The life and times of Sara Baartman "The Hottentot Venus"
Title
The life and times of Sara Baartman [videorecording] : "The Hottentot Venus" / a film by Zola Maseko ; [present] Dominant 7, Mail & Guardian Television, France 3 and SABC 2.
Published
New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, [1998]
Physical Description
1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Notes
Public performance rights granted.
Producers, Philip Brooks, Harriet Gavshon ; director, Zola Maseko ; 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.
In English and French with English subtitles.
Summary
A documentary film 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
June 01, 2002
Credits
Producers, Philip Brooks, Harriet Gavshon ; director, Zola Maseko ; 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
VHS.
Subjects
Also listed under
Dominant 7 (Firm)
Mail & Guardian Television.
Société nationale de programme France-Régions.
South African Broadcasting Corporation.
First Run/Icarus Films.
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