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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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http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/E/ellis_derek.html
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