{"product_id":"derek-jarmans-angelic-conversations","title":"Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations","description":"\u003cp\u003eBest known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In \u003ci\u003eDerek Jarman's Angelic Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life of one of the most provocative, engaged, and important artists of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDerek Jarman's Angelic Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes Jarman's work-including his famous films Caravaggio, Jubilee, Edward II, Blue, and Sebastiane-in relation to his critiques of the government and his activism in the gay community, from the liberationist movement to the AIDS epidemic. While others have frequently focused on Jarman's biography, Ellis looks at how his politics and aesthetics are intertwined to comprehend his most radical aspects, particularly in films such as \u003ci\u003eWar Requiem \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Last of England\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere Jarman is revealed as an artist who keenly understood the role of history and mythology in creating a personal and national identity: as an activist, he sought to challenge old histories while producing new ones to carve out a space for alternative communities in Britain late in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56709148868952,"sku":"9780816653133","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780816653133.jpg?v=1778779824","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/derek-jarmans-angelic-conversations","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}