The Disappearance of Shere Hite Movie

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The Disappearance of Shere Hite Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: The Hite Report, a groundbreaking study of the intimate experiences of women, remains one of the bestselling books of all time since its publication in 1976. Drawn from anonymous survey responses, the book challenged restrictive conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women's pleasure. Its charismatic author, Shere Hite, a feminist sex researcher and former model, became the public messenger of women's secret confessions. With each subsequent bestseller, she engaged television titans in unforgettably explicit debates about sexuality while suffering the backlash her controversial findings provoked. But few remember Shere Hite today. What led to her erasure? Digging into exclusive archives, as well as Hite's personal journals and the original survey responses, filmmaker Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp, Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, 2020 Sundance Film Festival) transports viewers back to a time of great societal transformation around sexuality. Her revelatory portrait is a rediscovery of a pioneer who has had an unmistakable influence on current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy, as well as a timely, cautionary tale of what too often happens to women who dare speak out.

US Release Date: 2023
Starring: Dakota Johnson
Director : Nicole Newnham
Transcript
00:00 [APPLAUSE]
00:02 Today, this much-publicized author
00:04 has agreed to face an audience filled entirely with men.
00:11 The Hype Report, the book stunned everyone
00:13 with the clitoris and the vagina.
00:15 Is one orgasm sexually satisfying?
00:17 If not, how many?
00:18 How that's done should be incorporated
00:21 into a lot of lovemaking.
00:22 Every woman's going to want to read this, and men should too.
00:27 They hated the book.
00:29 They tried to sabotage it, keep it down.
00:32 It's all like hotcakes.
00:33 It's the 30th best-selling book of all time.
00:35 How can you shut somebody like this up?
00:39 Cher Hype was this wonderful creature, very striking,
00:42 very beautiful.
00:43 But her real interest was more intellectually advanced.
00:46 If you wanted to write about sex,
00:48 you would just make men totally crazy.
00:51 She were criticized by some of the reviewers.
00:53 What she says is always controversial.
00:57 The Hype Report gave voice to people who never had a voice,
01:00 to experiences thousands of women never even discussed
01:03 before.
01:04 This is going to lead to real changes
01:05 in sex between men and women.
01:07 Is there any danger in that?
01:09 Equality doesn't seem dangerous to me.
01:11 I'm so tough.
01:14 I play it.
01:16 People criticized her methodology
01:18 so they could discount her findings.
01:20 Everything I've heard about her has been negative.
01:22 A lot of people who criticized the book haven't even read it.
01:25 Give me a reason to love.
01:28 Cher knew sexuality could be weaponized by the right
01:32 with the deadliest consequences.
01:35 Give me a reason to give me--
01:38 The work speaks for itself.
01:39 She fought too hard--
01:40 Stop it.
01:41 --with her adversaries.
01:42 You've been accused of man bashing.
01:44 Yeah, and it's going to happen right here.
01:45 She can't make a living in this country.
01:47 She's being silenced.
01:48 We were walking by her apartment.
01:50 The doorman said she doesn't live here anymore.
01:52 And she was gone.
01:53 [SCREAMING]
01:54 She just disappeared.
01:55 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:59 There's a disappearance of feminist knowledge,
02:01 century after century, decade after decade.
02:03 Well, who is she?
02:04 You've got to be kidding me.
02:05 I don't hear people talk to me about it anymore.
02:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:11 I just find it troublesome that younger women will have to
02:14 fight the same battles over again.
02:15 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:20 [SCREAMING]
02:22 [GASPING]
02:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:32 [BLANK_AUDIO]