Sexography : sex work in documentary / Nicholas de Villiers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Villiers, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in motion pictures.

Sex in motion pictures.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxii, 268 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Summary:

The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an eruption of nonfiction films on sex work. The first book to examine a cross-section of this diverse and transnational body of work, Sexography confronts the ethical questions raised by ethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects. Nicholas de Villiers argues that carnal and cultural knowledge are inextricably entangled in ethnographic sex work documentaries, ultimately demonstrating how commercial sex is intertwined with culture and power. He advocates shifting our approach from scrutinizing the motives of those who sell sex to examining those of the filmmakers and transnational audiences who create and consume films about sex work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface. Venus: Paris is burning

Introduction: how much does it cost for cinema to tell the truth of sex?

Street talk and love: Pasolini's cinéma vérité in Comizi d'amore

Confession porn: Wkiktor Grodecki's Body without soul and Not angels but angels

Save us from saviors: reflexive feminist documentary and Shohini Ghosh's Tales of the night fairies

Grey mornings of tolerance: Cui Zi'en's Night scene and queer China, "comrade" China

Truth under the uniform: youth and sexuality in Hideaki Anno's Love & pop

Conclusion. Plot twists: live nude girls, unite!

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781517900144

151790014X

9781517900151

1517900158

OCLC:

954203382