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Derek Jarman: A Biography [Illustrated] ,
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Prologue
1 Family Mythology
2 Beautiful Flowers and How to Grow Them
3 Buried Feelings
4 School House and Manor House
5 Pakistan
6 A Subtle Terror Rules
7 Every Man Is a Special Kind of Artist
8 Metroland Student
9 If You’re Anxious for to Shine
10 Meeting Mr Wright
11 The Billboard Promised Land
12 Becoming Derek
13 Father Figures
14 Swinging Decayed
15 This Month in Vogue
16 The Devils
17 Oasis at Bankside
18 Movietown
19 Butler’s Wharf and Beyond
20 Features
21 Jubilee
22 Stormy Weather
23 Montage Years
24 Angelic and Other Conversations
25 The Last of England
26 A Fifth Continent
27 Sod ’Em
28 I Walk in This Garden
29 Blue Prints
30 Do Not Go Gentle
Notes
List of Works
Filmography
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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Derek Jarman A
BIOGRAPHY
TONY PEAKE
University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis
First published in the United Kingdom by Little, Brown Book Group, First University of Minnesota Press edition, Copyright by Anthony Peake All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or t
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DEREK JARMAN
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by Harlan Kennedy
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Extinguish your preconceptions; slip your mind into a receptive position; welcome to the world of British filmmaker Derek Jarman. Those who enter it are seldom the same again. And those who stand back to frown or censure condemn themselves to miss out on one of the oddest, bravest bodies of work in modern cinema.
We knew what we were in for, or could have guessed, 23 years ago. Jarman's first movie – called Derek Jarman Film Diaryor Studio Bankside – was shot on Super-8 in A ten-minute cut-up impromptu filmed in his Thameside studio in , it looks like the brainstorm of a demented home-movie freak. Chairs, flower vases, paintings, a mannequin, a pair of spectacles, faces of friends Like a series of jagged-angled flashbulb snaps the images flare and die, punctuated by semisubliminal shots of a glowing red wire.
All this and, just under the floorboards, the ghost of William Shakespeare. For Jarman's studio, now demolished, was on the sight of none other than th