Parsons Luminous presence

Derek Jarman's life-writing
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4476-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Much of Jarman's powerful, imaginative response to HIV/AIDS can be found in his remarkable books, which Alexandra Parsons argues were critical in changing the cultural terms of queer representation in the 1980s and 1990s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parsons, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 'The porter into forgotten landscapes': A finger in the fishes mouth
2 Dancing Ledge: 'An autobiography at forty'
3 Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio: 'Reading between the lines of history'
4 Becoming Pasolini: Derek Jarman in Ostia
5 Kicking the Pricks: 'Forward into an uncertain future.'
6 Self-Projection in film: The Last of England and The Garden
7 Modern Nature: Haunting, flowers and personal mythologies
8 Queer Edward II: 'Are you a closet bigot?'
9 At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament
10 Smiling in Slow Motion: Testimony and elegy
11 'A kind of bliss': Blue and Chroma
12 Derek Jarman’s Garden: A therapy and a pharmacopoeia
Conclusion: 'The past is the mirror'

Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra Parsons is a Paul Mellon Centre fellow and teaches contemporary literature and culture at University College London