Derek Jarman's Caravaggio
Author: Derek Jarman
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780500274194
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Derek Jarman
Author: Rowland Wymer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1526141329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema rather than merely being a cult figure. It places particular emphasis on the importance of Renaissance art and literature for Jarman, and emphasises his interest in Jungian psychology. Wymer shows how Jarman used his films to take his audience with him on an inner journey in search of the self, whilst remaining fully aware of the dangers of such a journey. Making substantial use of Jarman's unpublished papers as well as all his published works, Wymer argues that the films are orientated towards a much wider audience than is often supposed. They are addressed to anyone, of whatever gender or sexuality, who is prepared to go on a journey in search of him or her self and to become Jarman's accomplice in 'the dream world of the soul'.
Modern Nature
Author: Derek Jarman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1452915024
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Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks
Author: Stephen Farthing
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0500516944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part autobiography and part social history: the acclaimed director’s filmmaking process revealed through his private sketchbooks Legendary filmmaker Derek Jarman recorded his life and work in highly detailed sketchbooks. Encompassing both the private and the professional, these offer a personal view into the life and career of a highly influential filmmaker and artist. Drawn from the collection of handmade books that Jarman gave to the British Film Institute shortly before his death in 1994, Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks showcases the most insightful and beautiful pages. Each of the original volumes is composed of drawings, photographs, and cuttings; pressed flowers are set beside scrawled ideas, and carefully penned poems accompany typed and edited working scripts. These once-private books are an intimate pictorial record of the detailed planning and research and the creative and emotional engagement behind every scene in Jarman’s films.
Quoting Caravaggio
Author: Mieke Bal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001-03
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780226035574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author's primary object of investigation in this text is not the Caravaggio, but rather the issue of temporality in art. She analyzes the productives relationship between Caravaggio and a number of late-20th century artists who "quote" the baroque master in their own works.
Derek Jarman's Super 8
Author: James Mackay
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2014-11-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0500517320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of stills from Derek Jarman’s many short Super 8 films, curated and commented on by some of the most important names in contemporary cinema Derek Jarman was one of most influential filmmakers of the late twentieth century, transcending the avant-garde to make cult feature films such as Jubilee (1978) and Caravaggio (1986). He was a painter before venturing into the world of film, and a painter's mentality permeates all his work, particularly his experiments in Super 8 film. The Super 8s show Jarman at his most visually courageous and creative, using rich color and bold compositions, and experimenting with techniques such as superimposition and the use of prisms and filters. When Jarman died, he left his entire collection of ninety-two Super 8s to James Mackay, who has spent the last twenty years archiving, restoring, and digitizing them. Here, Mackay presents stills from these works, selected by artists and filmmakers who have engaged with or been influenced by Jarman. This remarkable body of work contains some of the most evocative images from the filmmaker’s entire career, accompanied by insightful commentaries from contributors such as Gus Van Sant, Tacita Dean, and Isaac Julien.
Caravaggio
Author: Leo Bersani
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-03-25
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1839022574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. And yet the film is a uniquely complex and lucid treatment of Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. In particular, according to Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio is unlike Jarman's other work in avoiding a sentimentalising of gay relationships and in making no neat distinction between the exercise and the suffering of violence. Film-making involves a coercive power which, for Bersani and Dutoit, Jarman may, without admitting it to himself, have found deeply seductive. But in Caravaggio this power is renounced, and the result is Jarman's most profound, unsettling and astonishing reflection on sexuality and identity.
Dancing Ledge
Author: Derek Jarman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1452915717
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Author: Pascale Aebischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-05-23
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 110724482X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays captured the popular imagination at the turn of the last century, independent filmmakers began to adapt the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The roots of their films in European avant-garde cinema and the plays' politically subversive, sexually transgressive and violent subject matter challenge Shakespeare's cultural dominance and the conventions of mainstream cinema. In Screening Early Modern Drama, Pascale Aebischer shows how director Derek Jarman constructed an alternative, dissident approach to filming literary heritage in his 'queer' Caravaggio and Edward II, providing models for subsequent filmmakers such as Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, Alex Cox and Sarah Harding. Aebischer explains how the advent of digital video has led to an explosion in low-budget screen versions of early modern drama. The only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen to date, this groundbreaking study also includes an extensive annotated filmography listing forty-eight surviving adaptations.
Caravaggio's Secrets
Author: Leo Bersani
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: 2001-02
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780262523134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A psychoanalytic reading of the homoerotic messages in the early portraits of Michelangelo Caravaggio explores the artist's attempts to move beyond such relations, his fascination with imaginary secrets, and experiments with a new mode of connectedness in his paintings. Reprint.
