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.
Editing
Jarring cuts between Hays Code lectures and 70s exploitation
Acting
Malcolm McDowell's unhinged enthusiasm for his own nude scenes
Production
Securing archival clips that studios buried for decades
Director
Danny Wolf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Danny Wolf spent three years negotiating with studios who initially refused to license footage for a documentary about nudity.
The film's release coincided with the 2020 pandemic, making its theatre-vs-streaming nudity debate accidentally prescient.
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