Synopses & Reviews
England’s most controversial filmmaker and director, Derek Jarman was also a gifted writer, artist, gardener, designer, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist. Jarman’s story stretches from his childhood in postwar Britain to art school days at the Slade School of Art and the making of many acclaimed films, including
Sebastiane,
Jubilee,
Caravaggio, and
Blue.
A chronicle of sexual fear and repression, the devastation of disease, and inimitable courage and grace, Derek Jarman: A Biography is an honest and brilliant tribute to the uncompromising life and art of Derek Jarman.
Synopsis
The definitive biography of Britains influential and iconic film director.
About the Author
"That Jarman lived and died on the cutting edge of contemporary culture is central to the thesis of Tony Peake’s monumentally well researched and fittingly respectful biography of this multifaceted personality. Peake . . . is his subject’s perfect biographer." —The Times (London)"Outstanding . . . the thoroughgoing life story that this experimental director and gay rights crusader deserves." —Financial Times"This is a superbly written biography, both evocative and gritty, as much a social history of postwar Britain as a life of an artist." —Irish Independent
Table of 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 Youre 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. Butlers 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