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Guys Gone Wild?: Soft-Core Video Professionalism and New Realities in Television Production
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 47, Number 2, Winter 2008
- pp. 97-116
- 10.1353/cj.2008.0005
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay presents an ethnographic perspective on the performance of cameramen in the soft-core reality video industry. Much like the self-narratives among television producers, soft-core videographers frame their actions through masculinist discourses, which are then destabilized through the production process and labor conditions in the television economy.