The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman: Critical and Cultural Readings

by Niall Richardson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845115376
• ISBN13: 9781845115371
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"