Sexography

University of Minnesota Press
Sexography

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.