From the first, brief moving images of Female nudes in the 1880s to the present, the motion picture camera made the Female body a battleground in what we now call the culture wars.
Primitive peepshow images of burlesque dancers gave way to the "artistic" nudit.
This History of Hollywood\'s treatment of women\'s bodies traces the full span of the motion picture era.
Churchmen feared the excitation of male lust; feminists decried the idealization of a body type that devalued the majority of women.
From the first, brief moving images of Female nudes in the 1880s to the present, the motion picture camera made the Female body a battleground in what we now call the culture wars