Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire in a wide variety of movies. It ranges from powerful contemporary dramas such as
Kidulthood,
Closer and
Disobedience to the lighter mood of the Bridget Jones series. It also analyses how the lives, loves and traumas of historical figures such as Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath and Iris Murdoch were dramatised on film. 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.
Table of Contents1 Introduction: Relationships and intimacy in British films of the 2000s
2 From The Happy Prince to ‘Lady Lazarus’ and Iris: A Memoir: Writers in British society and tales of their private lives and personal affairs
3 ‘Diary of a somebody’: Bridget Jones’s journey from the ‘edge of reason’ to marriage and motherhood
4 ‘No sex, please – we’re British?’: Sex, sensibility and British cinema
5 ‘The way we live now’: Narratives exploring relationships in modern British society
Afterword: ‘We must love one another or/and die?’
Index
