Derek Jarman's angelic conversations / Jim Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Jim, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jarman, Derek, 1942-1994--Criticism and interpretation.

Jarman, Derek.

Jarman, Derek, 1942-1994.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction: getting history wrong

Artistic and sexual revolutions. Situationism and other avant-gardes ; The gay liberation front

Liberation, space, and the early films. Reconfiguring "home" in the super-8s ; Gay liberation theology in Sebastiane

The Elizabethan future. Jubilee and the punk nation ; Punk heritage in The tempest

The Caravaggio years. Imagining change : Imagining October ; Homoerotic countermythologies in The angelic conversation ; Caravaggio : gay history and the scripts ; Caravaggio and the art of the past

Thatcherism, AIDS, and war. The last of England and the landscape of loss ; War requiem and the army of lovers

Time and the garden. The garden at Prospect Cottage ; Gardening history in Modern nature ; Histories of the fall in The garden

Blindness and insight. Edward II : queer Gothic ; Wittgenstein and the queer life ; Queer vision in Blue

Coda : the raft of the Medusa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Select filmography of Derek Jarman": pages 293-294.

ISBN:

9780816653126

0816653127

9780816653133

0816653135

OCLC:

351318504