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The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman - Critical and Cultural Readings (Paperback)
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The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman - Critical and Cultural Readings (Paperback)
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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. Although Jarman's films
have often been praised for being allegories of political
resistance, this book argues convincingly that the 'queer' status
of his cinema is as much indebted to the representation of
alternative paradigms of gender and sexuality as it is to his
portrayal of tendentious political battles.
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