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Maids and madams / directed by Mira Hamermesh.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Hamermesh, Mira.
- Series:
- Filmakers Library online
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apartheid--South Africa.
- Apartheid.
- Women, Black--Employment.
- Women, Black.
- South Africa.
- Women, Black--Employment--South Africa.
- South Africa--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Documentary.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- Mira Hamermesh's powerful film, shot in South Africa, eloquently examines the tragedy of Apartheid through the complex relationship between black household worker and white employer. This domestic situation is a microcosm of the racial issues dividing the country. Over a million black women live in a state of domestic bondage, underpaid, working long hours and at the mercy of draconian laws which separate them from their own families.As psychologist Ethel Wallt says at the end of the film: "The white people in this country are imprisoned by their own fear".
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (Filmakers library online). Available via World Wide Web.
- National Educational Film Festival, First Place, 1986
- San Francisco Festival, Black Cinema Series, 1986
- OCLC:
- 747797948
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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