Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, J. Marcus Weekley currently lives and teaches (college English) in Mississippi. He's shopping a poetry manuscript of his around entitled The Merman's News, and his previously self-published books include one book of prose poems and a book of short stories. Marcus' photographs accompany the essays of Gail Folkins in Texas Dance Halls, and he is also a quilter. You may view more of Marcus' work on Flickr. Marcus likes movies, a lot, but romantic comedies are evil, as are musicals.
In great (lasting, challenging, beautiful, truthful, skillful) art – great film, great painting, great quilting, great photography – prurience has little place. However, nudity for a great filmmaker relates to film’s sense of time: it focuses on the impermanence of the body, while at the same time reveling in the beauty of the same body, as in each of these films.