At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament - Softcover

Jarman, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816665923 ISBN 13: 9780816665921

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2010

Synopsis

One of England’s foremost filmmakers, Derek Jarman (1942–1994) wrote and directed several feature films, including Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, and Blue, as well as numerous short films and music videos. He was a stage designer, artist, writer, gardener, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist in the UK and the United States. He is the author of several books, among them Modern Nature, available from the University of Minnesota Press.

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Review

"If there is any such thing as the literary equivalent of an incendiary bomb, then this is it... His semtex-packed sentences are welcome thunderflashes of dissent in the grey drizzle of a dispirited political climate" (New Statesman)

"At Your Own Risk gives the reader access to something that is hard to articulate, the near asphyxiating pain, anxiety and rage which many gay people have felt living under the physical, legal and cultural attacks of the last few years" (Observer)

"For all his anger, Jarman never seems brutalised. He retains his humanity and good humour. His is a wonderfully garrulous, mercurial, polymathic daemon" (Literary Review)

Book Description

Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816665923
• ISBN 13: 9780816665921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160