Dear Jeremy, Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask] v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu _____________________________________________________________________ Part diary, part observation, part memoir—writings from Derek Jarman’s final years SMILING IN SLOW MOTION By Derek Jarman University of Minnesota Press | 400 pages | 2011 ISBN 978-0-8166-7453-4 | paperback | $18.95 BACK IN PRINT Written between 1991 and 1994, and ending just two weeks before his death, Derek Jarman’s entries review friends and enemies as he races through his last years painting, filmmaking, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics. Infused throughout with familiar honesty and wry humor, Smiling in Slow Motion is a document of endeavor, remembrance, and love. PRAISE FOR SMILING IN SLOW MOTION: "The clarity with which Derek Jarman offered up his life and the living of it, particularly since the epiphany—I can call it nothing less—of his illness was a genius stroke, not only of provocation, but of grace."—Tilda Swinton "These journals, far from being the product of a morbid defeatism, are on the contrary the life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full. Required reading." —The Times (London) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: One of England’s foremost filmmakers, Derek Jarman (1942–1994) wrote and directed several feature films, including Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, and Blue, as well as numerous short films and music videos. He was a stage designer, artist, writer, gardener, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is the author of several books, among them Modern Nature, Chroma, and At Your Own Risk, available from University of Minnesota Press. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/J/jarman_smiling.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/mediaalert.html Please email me if you have any questions. -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask] v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 ______________ Anastasia Scott Marketing Assistant University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Ave. S., Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 www.upress.umn.edu 612.627.1933 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]