Best known as an iconoclastic; wildly inventive filmmaker; Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author; painter; and landscape artist. In Derek Jarmans Angelic Conversations; Jim Ellis considers Jarmans 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 Jarmans Angelic Conversations analyzes Jarmans 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 Jarmans biography; Ellis looks at how his politics and aesthetics are intertwined to comprehend his most radical aspects; particularly in films such as War Requiem and The Last of England.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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