Cinema au Naturel by Mark Storey

Cinema au Naturel by Mark Storey

The quirky world of nudist films is revealed. Cinema au Naturel brings to life many long-forgotten films such as Elysia: Valley of the Nude, The Monster of Camp Sunshine, and Take Off Your Clothes and Live In his account of the history of nudist film, Mark Storey, introduces readers to the best and the worst of these cinematic portrayals of clothes-free life.

Mark Storey is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature (Oxford University Press, 2013). He has published essays on American
literature in numerous journals and collections, including Nineteenth-Century Literature, Modernism/modernity, and Neither the Time Nor the Place: Today's Nineteenth Century (Ed. Christopher Castiglia and Susan Gillman, Uni versityof Pennsylvania Press, 2021). He is also, with Stephen Shapiro,
co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to American Horror.