Aandacht voor de wederzijdse beïnvloeding tussen de documentaire als genre en feministische theorieën. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Sentimental contracts: dreams and documents of American labor / door Paula Rabinowitz: Flaherty's midwives / door Patricia R. Zimmerman: New subjectivities: documentary and self-representation in the post-verité age / door Michael Renov: Bad girls come and go, but a lying girl can never be fenched in / door Alexandra Juhasz: (Pass through) the mirror moment and 'Don't look back': music and gender in a rockumentary / door Susan Knobloch: Identities unmasked / empowerment unleashed: the documentary style of Michelle Parkerson / door Gloria J. Gibson: Cross-cultural filmmaking, Japanese style / door Ann Kaneko: Return, transference, and the constructedness of experience in German / Turkish documentary film / door Silvia Kratzer-Juilfs: Melancholic memories and manic politics: feminism, documentary, and the Armenian diaspora / door Anahid Kassabian en David Kazanjian: Fetishes and fossils: notes on documentary and materiality / door Laura U. Marks: On silence and other disruptions / door Deborah Lefkowitz: Fleeing from documentary: autobiographical film / video and the 'ethics of responsibility' / door Michelle Citron: From rupture to rapture through experimental bio-pics: Leslie Thornton's 'There was an unseen cloud moving' / door Chris Holmlund: Women's fragmented consciousness in feminist experimental autobiographical video / door Julia Lesage.
The essays are divided into two sections. The first reprints debates on the topic and traces the evolution of pornographic film, including comparing its development to that of Hollywood cinema. The second part presents new essays that consider current trends in the field, including pornography's expansion into new technologies.