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Jim Ellis - Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations - 9780816653126 - V9780816653126
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Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations

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Description for Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.

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.

Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations analyzes Jarman's work-including his famous films Caravaggio, Jubilee, Edward II, Blue, and Sebastiane-in relation to his critiques of the government and his activism in the gay community, from the liberationist movement to the AIDS epidemic. While others have frequently focused on Jarman's biography, ... Read more

Here Jarman is revealed as an artist who keenly understood the role of history and mythology in creating a personal and national identity: as an activist, he sought to challenge old histories while producing new ones to carve out a space for alternative communities in Britain late in the twentieth century.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653126
SKU
V9780816653126
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jim Ellis
Jim Ellis is associate professor of English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Sexuality and Citizenship: Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse.

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