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The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman: Critical and Cultural Readings

The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman: Critical and Cultural Readings

Richardson, Niall

Paperback

Series: International Library of Cultural Studies, Book 1

Film StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1845115376
ISBN13: 9781845115371
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 1 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Derek Jarman has been called the 'godfather' of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as 'Queer Cinema'. 'Queer' rejects labels, challenges fixed ideas of gender and sexual identity and refuses the status of a tolerated minority, and queer imagery dominates Jarman's cinema. Yet there has been little attention given to this rich vein in his work.This is the first book to view Jarman's uniquely personal - and pleasurable - cinema through the analytical prism of 'queer'. Niall Richardson takes up queer theory and its debates, as well as the tension between theory and activism, to apply these issues to Jarman's cinema in critical readings of his films, with special attention given to Caravaggio, Edward II and Blue. Richardson enters the debates about queer sexuality and particularly the dynamics of sadomasochism in sexual relations. He considers alternative regimes of gender and sexuality, desire and its relationship to the body, and the political impact of such images.

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