Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

2020131 min6.5 / 10

A scholarly, archive-driven examination of how cinema's treatment of nudity reflects evolving social morality, gender politics, and artistic freedom across film history.

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.

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