{"id":34496,"date":"2021-02-03T22:47:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=34496"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:47:16","slug":"skin-a-history-of-nudity-in-the-movies-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/03\/skin-a-history-of-nudity-in-the-movies-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Danny Wolf\u2019s newest documentary is notable mostly for being a movie that\u2019s produced by Jim McBride. McBride is famous, of course, for being \u201cMr. Skin,\u201d the founder of one of the biggest, and first, websites about nudity in film. Aptly titled \u201cSkin,\u201d the documentary about the history of nudity in Hollywood and filmmaking and how it shook the landscape of pop culture, wants to desperately be taken as a bold mix of educational and entertainment, but beyond fleeting insight and fascinating looks at pre-code film, it\u2019s mostly just another nudie reel.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSkin\u201d is a documentary chronicling the pervasive culture of nudity in film culture and how it\u2019s managed to change the medium for better and worse. Wolf sits down with myriad filmmakers and actors like Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kevin Smith, and Shannon Elizabeth, respectively, to explore the infamous examples of nudity, censorship and how little our acceptance toward the human form has evolved.<\/p>\n

\u201cSkin\u201d is partially a very important movie about sexuality and the expression of sexuality as a means of conveying a point in a narrative. The other half it doesn\u2019t really opt for much than to run through the same old clips we\u2019ve seen a thousand times. Phoebe Cates in \u201cFast Times at Ridgemont High,\u201d Elizabeth Berkeley in \u201cShowgirls,\u201d Demi Moore in \u201cStriptease,\u201d et al; It\u2019s all here. Again<\/em><\/strong>. It\u2019s kind of sad when HBO has managed to tackle this topic so much thoroughly and insightfully with late night documentaries than most of the film.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame because Wolf has a good opportunity to analyze the sexual repression in America, the idea of using the human form to control our opinion of expressing sexuality, and so on. To its credit though, \u201cSkin\u201d does take astern look at rape culture and using sexual violence as an excuse to feature nudity. Not to mention there\u2019s the whole NC-17 crimson stamp issue, and how to tackle nudity in the #MeToo era. Wolf and co. also take some time out to discuss the Pre-Code era of Hollywood and how film looked so much different in that era.<\/p>\n

Before the Hays Code was instilled and enforced, Hollywood was able to take more risks and hit the ground running in acknowledging sex as a norm. There is a lot of admiration by the filmmakers and film scholars presented here, and it adds substance to the experience with success. Hell, I\u2019m just glad they acknowledged that movies were being made before 1975. At over two hours, \u201cSkin\u201d wastes the opportunity to approach nudity in film from a more academic stance, but if you\u2019re willing to compromise and accept that we\u2019re here primarily for the T&A, it\u2019s a pretty good retrospective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danny Wolf\u2019s newest documentary is notable mostly for being a movie that\u2019s produced by Jim McBride. McBride is famous, of course, for being \u201cMr. Skin,\u201d the founder of one of the biggest, and first, websites about nudity in film. Aptly titled \u201cSkin,\u201d the documentary about the history of nudity in Hollywood and filmmaking and how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[70,219,292,328,357,469,501],"class_list":["post-34496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adult","tag-comedy","tag-documentary","tag-erotic","tag-film-history","tag-history","tag-indie-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34498,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496\/revisions\/34498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}