Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nicole Newnham tells us how European audiences reacted to her award-winning documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite, about the titular American sex researcher who became a sensation after the publication of her book The Hite Report in the 1970s, and then was virtually driven into exile by a harsh backlash to her findings.

HBO Original documentary South To Black Power, a This Machine production, directed by Peabody Sam Pollard (HBO’s Hostages, Black Art: In the Absence of Light) and Llewellyn M. Smith (Poisoned Water), debuts Tuesday, November 28 on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.

In the mid-1970s most American women remained silent about their sexual feelings – how they achieved orgasms, what they liked to do in bed. It was a major taboo to explore such a topic. Shere Hite changed all that.

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Sex researcher Shere Hite became a media sensation in the mid-1970s with the publication of her groundbreaking study of female sexuality, The Hite Report. Then came the furious backlash. Hite’s extraordinary impact on American culture, and the price she paid for her work are explored in the award-winning documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite. The film directed by Oscar nominee Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp) screened as part of Deadline’s virtual event series For the Love of Docs.