Table of Contents

Contents: ‘Foreword’ Tilda Swinton • ‘An Introduction to Derek Jarman as Film-maker’ Jon Savage • ‘Early Experiments with Film 1964–1977’ Andrew Logan • ‘Jubilee to Angelic Conversation 1978–1986’ Toyah Willcox • ‘Caravaggio 1986’ Christopher Hobbs • ‘The Last of England to War Requiem 1987–1989’ James Mackay • ‘The Garden 1990’ Howard Sooley • Edward II to Glitterbug 1991–1993 Neil Tennant • ‘Blue 1994–1997’ Keith Collins

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An intimate portrait of one of Britain's most influential film-makers - a cult in his lifetime; a cult today

About the Author

Stephen Farthing is a painter and the Rootstein Hopkins Research Professor of Drawing at the University of the Arts, London.

Ed Webb-Ingall is a film producer who holds a research position at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.

Reviews

'Will delight Jarman’s still-growing faithful, for whom he remains a unique and irreplaceable artist and provocateur' - Observer

'Brings Jarman and his art into fuller and more luminous perspective … painstakingly edited and strikingly reproduced' - New Statesman

'Distils the many strands that made up Jarman’s work – humour, torrential creativity, romanticism and the palpable political anger that burned fiercely during the dog days of Thatcherism' - Dazed & Confused