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Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies( 2020)

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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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Malcolm McDowell
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Shannon Elizabeth
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Sean Young
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Traci Lords
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Eric Roberts
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Kristanna Loken
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Pam Grier
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Cerina Vincent
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Linda Blair
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Diane Franklin
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Sybil Danning
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Bruce Davison
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Mariel Hemingway
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Joe Dante
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Amy Heckerling
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Mamie Van Doren
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Martine Beswick
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Erica Gavin
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Irv Slifkin
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Amy Nicholson
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Ken Davitian
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Brinke Stevens
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Richard Roeper
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Martha Coolidge
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Elizabeth Daily
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Kristine DeBell
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David Del Valle
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Mat Gleason
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Joan Graves
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Selwyn Harris
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Camille Keaton
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Barry Kemelhor
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Jonathan Kuntz
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Angela Landis
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Mick LaSalle
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Jimmy McDonough
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Sylvia Miles
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John Cameron Mitchell
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Rena Riffel
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Eliza Roberts
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Alicia Rodis
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Betsy Russell
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Tatiana Siegel
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Jim McBride
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Kevin Smith
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Thomas Doherty
Liz Goldwyn
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Phoebe Cates
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A review by Igbochild

Written by Igbochild on Thu Jul 07 2022

More of a "greatest hits" of nudity in film than a balanced examination of the subject. This is not surprising considering that one of the producers of the documentary as well as an interview subject is Mr. Skin, who operates a website that features clips of movie nude scenes. The documentary starts off reasonably well by discussing the earliest appearances of nudity in film and the forces inside and outside the motion picture industry that tried to suppress nudity and realistic depictions of sexuality on the screen. The time of the Production Code and its many restrictions on content is f...