The films of Derek Jarman
By: William Pencak.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Jarman, Derek, 1942- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: "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.".

"This book provides background information on each of Jarman's fifteen scripts and films. The chapters are "program notes" to his films from a historical perspective. An interpretation of Jarman's intentions, gleaned from the director's writings and writings about him, is also provided.

This work reveals Jarman's importance as a keen student of the limits of historical knowledge, and delineates the role of history in inspiring change or preserving inertia in the present struggle against homophobia."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Akenaten: a queer pharaoh?; title: The garden: the relevance of a queer Jesus; title: Sebastiane: early Christianity and the Roman Empire; title: Edward II: from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance; title: Caravaggio and the Italian Renaissance; title: The angelic conversation: queer Dee and Shakespeare?; title: The tempest: from the Renaissance to the present; title: Wittgenstein: the grey flame and the early twentieth century; title: War requiem: the long shadow of the Great War; title: Jubilee without John Dee?: modern times; title: The last of England: modern times revisited; title: Neutron and sod'em: possible futures; title: Blue: "our time is the passing of a shadow"; title: Afterword: imagining October.