Title: The films of Derek Jarman /
Authors: Pencak, William, 1951-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Jarman, Derek, Criticism and interpretation.; Jarman, Derek, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: "Derek Jarman's films explore the possibilities and limitations of same-sex love and self-expression during various historical eras, from ancient Egypt to present times. His work covers a millennium of sexual repression and efforts to escape it. Jarman presents a cinematic history of people whose homoerotic passions had a major impact on western civilization in religion, art, politics, philosophy, and war.".
Contents: Introduction -- Akenaten: a queer pharaoh? -- The garden: the relevance of a queer Jesus -- Sebastiane: early Christianity and the Roman Empire -- Edward II: from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Caravaggio and the Italian Renaissance -- The angelic conversation: queer Dee and Shakespeare? -- The tempest: from the Renaissance to the present -- Wittgenstein: the grey flame and the early twentieth century -- War requiem: the long shadow of the Great War -- Jubilee without John Dee?: modern times -- The last of England: modern times revisited -- Neutron and Sod'em: possible futures --Blue: "our time is the passing of a shadow" -- Afterword: imagining October.