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Title The life and times of Sara Baartman : "The Hottentot Venus" / Dominant 7 ... [and others] present ; a film by Zola Maseko ; produced by Philip Brooks and Harriet Gavshon ; directed by Zola Maseko.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Icarus Films, [1998]

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 Moore Video  DT1058.k56 L544 1998    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD.
Note Originally produced in 1998.
Credits Narration written by Christian Docin-Julien ; camera, Giulio Biccari ; editor, Lise Beaulieu ; original music composed by Pops Mohamed, performed by Pops Mohamed and Gloria Bosman.
Performer Commentary: Phillip Tobias, Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Yvette Abrahams, Steve Martin, Brian Daubney.
Voices: Zola Maseko, Adrian Brown, Hlengiwe Farasani.
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.
Contents Origins : Khoi Khoi in South Africa -- London -- France -- In her own words -- Georges Cuvier & scientific imperialism -- Scientific racism -- Home.
Language In English and French with English subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Subject Baartman, Sarah.
Baartman, Sarah.
Khoikhoi (African people) -- Biography.
Khoikhoi (African people)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women, Black -- South Africa -- Biography.
Women, Black.
South Africa.
Somatotypes -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Somatotypes.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Racism -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Racism.
Racism in anthropology -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Racism in anthropology.
Racism in popular culture -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Racism in popular culture.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Africa.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Africa.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Subject Racism.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Brooks, Philip, 1953-2003.
Gavshon, Harriet.
Maseko, Zola, 1967-
Dominant 7 (Firm)
Icarus Films.
Added Title Hottentot Venus