{"id":4792,"date":"2021-07-08T16:03:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2021-07-08T18:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:24:57","slug":"nigel-mather-publishes-sex-and-desire-in-british-films-of-the-2000s-love-in-a-damp-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2021\/07\/08\/nigel-mather-publishes-sex-and-desire-in-british-films-of-the-2000s-love-in-a-damp-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Mather publishes &#8216;Sex and desire in British films of the 2000s: Love in a damp climate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with the return of <em>Love Island <\/em>to our television screens (and complementing that programme\u2019s tragi-comic portrayals of male-female relationships), Nigel Mather\u2019s <em>Sex and desire in British films of the <\/em>2000s: <em>Love in a damp climate <\/em>(Manchester University Press: 2021) explores how film-makers in Britain during the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire in a generically diverse series of compelling and contentious narratives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2021\/07\/nigel-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4800\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2021\/07\/nigel-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a>Nigel Mather says, &#8220;The book includes studies of the ways in which the lives, loves and sometimes tormented relationships of writers Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath and Iris Murdoch were dramatised on film, and examines a powerful group of films \u2013 <em>Kidulthood<\/em> and its sequels, <em>My Summer of Love<\/em>, <em>Closer<\/em>, <em>Disobedience <\/em>and <em>Perfect Sense<\/em> \u2013 all aimed at exploring how \u2018we live now\u2019 during an age of uncertainty and social distancing, and featuring characters torn between settling down and moving on (what in <em>Love Island <\/em>terminology is known as coupling and recoupling). In lighter mood, a chapter also considers Bridget Jones\u2019s iconic experiences of love and sex and her emotional journey from the \u2018edge of reason\u2019 to marriage and motherhood. The book will appeal to literature enthusiasts, film students and readers interested in exploring how we may currently live out our hopes, fears and dreams in relation to sexual matters and affairs of the heart in this \u2018sceptered isle\u2019 and post-Brexit universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nigel would like to express his deep gratitude and thanks to the School of Arts and the University of Kent for allowing me to write the book as an Honorary Researcher (Film) in the School of Arts. He would also like to acknowledge the huge emotional and intellectual debt owed to the Templeman Library for its outstanding research facilities, which were extensively drawn upon in the writing of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with the return of Love Island to our television screens (and complementing that programme\u2019s tragi-comic portrayals of male-female relationships), Nigel Mather\u2019s Sex and desire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2021\/07\/08\/nigel-mather-publishes-sex-and-desire-in-british-films-of-the-2000s-love-in-a-damp-climate\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":4798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1335,124,9111],"tags":[237597,254832],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}