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Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea

Autor Steven Dillon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2004
Derek Jarman was the most important independent filmmaker in England during the 1980s. Using emblems and symbols in associative contexts, rather than conventional, cause-and-effect narrative, he created films noteworthy for their lyricism and poetic feeling and for their exploration of the gay experience. His style of filmmaking also links Jarman with other prominent directors of lyric film, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Genet.
This pathfinding book places Derek Jarman in the tradition of lyric film and offers incisive readings of all eleven of his feature-length films, from Sebastiane to Blue. Steven Dillon looks at Jarman and other directors working in a similar vein to establish how lyric films are composed through the use of visual imagery and actual poetry. He then traces Jarman's use of imagery (notably mirrors and the sea) in his films and discusses in detail the relationship between cinematic representations and sexual identity. This insightful reading of Jarman's work helps us better understand how films such as The Last of England and The Garden can be said to cohere and mean without being reduced to clear messages. Above all, Dillon's book reveals how truly beautiful and brilliant Jarman's movies are.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292702240
ISBN-10: 0292702248
Pagini: 283
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Steven Dillon is Professor of English at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One: Derek Jarman and the History of Lyric Film
  • Chapter Two: The Mirror and the Sea: Jarman's Poetry and Queer Mirroring
  • Chapter Three: Poetry and Interpretation in Three Early Features: Sebastiane, Jubilee, and The Tempest
  • Chapter Four: Poetry and the Dislocations of Sound in The Angelic Conversation and War Requiem
  • Chapter Five: Caravaggio and the Mirror of Gold
  • Chapter Six: Reading Pictures: Emblem and Gesture in The Last of England and The Garden
  • Chapter Seven: Into the Last, Narrow Rooms: Edward II, Wittgenstein, and Blue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

As a sensitive and intelligent look at Jarman's films, Dillon's book is essential reading, and offers a compelling examination of the life and work of one of hte cinema's most gifted artists, who created a new world for himself and his peers, a world of light, reflection, and desire.

Descriere

This pathfinding book places Derek Jarman in the tradition of lyric film and offers incisive readings of all eleven of his feature-length films, from Sebastiane to Blue.