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A comprehensive look at the work of Britain's most controversial director

DEREK JARMAN'S ANGELIC CONVERSATIONS
By Jim Ellis
University of Minnesota Press | 328 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-5312-6 | hardcover | $66.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-5313-3 | paperback | $21.95

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.

"Here finally is a comprehensive, full-length study of Derek Jarman's 
prolific and ever-relevant oeuvre. Jim Ellis bases his insightful 
analysis on a detailed textual dissection of the films themselves, 
and shows how they embody in an integrated, complex way Jarman's 
aesthetic innovation, his bold queer erotic vision and his historical 
roots in radical cultural politics-from Gay Liberation to 
anti-Thatcher punk protest to AIDS activism. Ellis's book is an 
angelic conversation in itself: his rigorous interdisciplinary 
scholarship and lucid, perceptive writing are inextricable from his 
passionate personal engagement with one of the most influential and 
charismatic European artists of the latter third of the twentieth 
century." -Thomas Waugh, author of The Romance of Transgression in 
Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas

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