Overview

Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life of one of the most provocative, engaged, and important artists of the twentieth century.

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Author:   Jim Ellis
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780816653133

ISBN 10:   0816653135
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   09 November 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Getting History Wrong 1. Artistic and Sexual RevolutionsSituationism and Other Avant-gardes—The Gay Liberation Front2. Liberation, Space, and the Early FilmsReconfiguring ""Home"" in the Super-8s—Gay Liberation Theology in Sebastiane3. The Elizabethan FutureJubilee and the Punk Nation—Punk Heritage in The Tempest4. The Caravaggio YearsImagining Change: Imagining October—Homoerotic Countermythologies in The Angelic Conversation—Caravaggio: Gay History and the Scripts—Caravaggio and the Art of the Past5. Thatcherism, AIDS, and WarThe Last of England and the Landscape of Loss—War Requiem and the Army of Lovers6. Time and the GardenThe Garden at Prospect Cottage—Gardening History in Modern Nature—Histories of the Fall in The Garden7. Blindness and InsightEdward II: Queer Gothic—Wittgenstein and the Queer Life—Queer Vision in BlueCoda: The Raft of the Medusa Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Select Filmography of Derek Jarman Index"

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Jim Ellis is associate professor of English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Sexuality and Citizenship: Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse.

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