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DEREK JARMAN: A Biography
User Review - Jane Doe - KirkusAn evenhanded, pleasingly earnest, and terrifically thorough biography of the English filmmaker, artist, writer, gay advocate, and all-around mischief-maker.Novelist Peake (Son to the Father, not ... Read full review
Derek Jarman: a biography
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictWriter, painter, designer, avant-garde filmmaker, and sometimes gardener, Derek Jarman was a whirlwind of creative activity before his AIDS-related death in 1994. British director Ken Russell, who ... Read full review
Contents
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5 Pakistan | 34 |
6 A Subtle Terror Rules | 41 |
7 Every Man Is a Special Kind of Artist | 55 |
19 Butlers Wharf and Beyond | 188 |
20 Features | 214 |
21 Jubilee | 233 |
22 Stormy Weather | 252 |
23 Montage Years | 275 |
24 Angelic and Other Conversations | 314 |
25 The Last of England | 361 |
26 A Fifth Continent | 383 |
8 Metroland Student | 69 |
9 If Youre Anxious for to Shine | 78 |
10 Meeting Mr Wright | 88 |
11 The Billboard Promised Land | 99 |
12 Becoming Derek | 108 |
13 Father Figures | 119 |
14 Swinging Decayed | 126 |
15 This Month in Vogue | 137 |
16 The Devils | 153 |
17 Oasis at Bankside | 164 |
18 Movietown | 177 |
27 Sod Em | 416 |
28 I Walk in This Garden | 434 |
29 Blue Prints | 452 |
30 Do Not Go Gentle | 486 |
Notes | 535 |
List of Works | 568 |
Filmography | 573 |
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Acknowledgements | 593 |
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