Overview
The turn of thetwenty-first century has witnessed an eruption of non-fiction films on sex work.The first book to examine a cross-section of this diverse and transnationalbody of work, Sexography confronts the ethical questions raised byethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects.Nicholas de Villiers offers a reading of cinema as a technology of truth andargues that carnal and cultural knowledge are inextricably entangled in ethnographicsex work documentaries.
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Author: Nicholas de Villiers
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781517900151
ISBN 10: 1517900158
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 March 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Nicholas de Villiers’s deeply felt and sharply focused transcultural purview of documentary representations of sex work is all the more urgent at a historical moment that threatens to close down not only desire and difference but also documentary’s historical aspirations toward democracy and social justice. The critical questions he raises extend far beyond the narrow bounds of the selected films as he behooves us to join him in trying to answer them.""—Thomas Waugh, Concordia University ""Unlike former work focusing on prostitutes as characters in film, Nicholas de Villiers launches an entirely new discourse around the motivations, inventions, and methods of sex worker cinema in this groundbreaking book. His integration of perspectives of both non-sex-worker filmmakers and films made by sex workers is absolutely crucial. In a book that's been a long time coming, de Villiers embraces the 'whore’s eye view' of experiential makers and presents an inquiry that is central to investigations of politics, political art, and empowerment.""—Carol Leigh, producer of Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes ""de Villiers has sought to be, as he says, “a queer ally” to sex workers — meaning that he seeks to assist in the process of destigmatization and to problematize the discourse of sex worker as victim. In a world that is dominated by anti-sex work bias, such an analysis is sorely needed.""—Los Angeles Review of Books"
Nicholas de Villiers s deeply felt and sharply focused transcultural purview of documentary representations of sex work is all the more urgent at a historical moment that threatens to close down not only desire and difference but also documentary s historical aspirations toward democracy and social justice. The critical questions he raises extend far beyond the narrow bounds of the selected films as he behooves us to join him in trying to answer them. Thomas Waugh, Concordia University</p> Unlike former work focusing on prostitutes as characters in film, Nicholas de Villiers launches an entirely new discourse around the motivations, inventions, and methods of sex worker cinema in this groundbreaking book. His integration of perspectives of both non-sex-worker filmmakers and films made by sex workers is absolutely crucial. In a book that's been a long time coming, de Villiers embraces the 'whore s eye view' of experiential makers and presents an inquiry that is central to investigations of politics, political art, and empowerment. Carol Leigh, producer of <i>Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes</i></p>
Author Information
Nicholas de Villiers is associate professor of English and film at the University of North Florida. He is the author of Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol (Minnesota, 2012).
