The films of Derek Jarman
"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."
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780786414307, 0786414308
50510718
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