Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: Derek Jarman and the History of Lyric Film
• Chapter Two: The Mirror and the Sea: Jarman's Poetry and Queer Mirroring
• Chapter Three: Poetry and Interpretation in Three Early Features: Sebastiane, Jubilee, and The Tempest
• Chapter Four: Poetry and the Dislocations of Sound in The Angelic Conversation and War Requiem
• Chapter Five: Caravaggio and the Mirror of Gold
• Chapter Six: Reading Pictures: Emblem and Gesture in The Last of England and The Garden
• Chapter Seven: Into the Last, Narrow Rooms: Edward II, Wittgenstein, and Blue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

Places Derek Jarman in the tradition of lyric film and offers incisive readings of all eleven of his feature-length films

About the Author

Steven Dillon is Professor of English at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Reviews

"Steven Dillon's rich, expansive book may be the definitive treatment of the work of Derek Jarman... The book is well researched, well written, theoretically informed, and remarkably perceptive of the range and feeling in Derek Jarman's films." James Morrison, York University, Toronto, author of Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors "Dillon moves seamlessly from one complex thematic idea to another, knitting a convincing argument through an intertwining and layering of his observations and theories on the lyric and poetic in the cinema. Dillon's book is a valuable contribution to the existing scholarship on Derek Jarman's films ... "--FILM INTERNATIONAL 15, 2005:3