Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern by Robert Mills

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First exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work.

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Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern by Robert Mills

FINALIST IN THE HISTORIANS OF BRITISH ART BOK AWARDS 2020 The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994) had a lifelong appreciation of medieval culture. But with the possible exception of Edward I, Jarman's films have not been identified to date as making a major contribution to the depiction of the Middle Ages in cinema. This book is the first to uncover a rich seam of medievalism in Jarman's art. Taking in major features such as Caravaggio, The Garden and The Last of England, as well as some of the unrealised screenplays and short experimental films, the book proposes an expanded definition of medieval film that includes not just worksset in or about the Middle Ages, but also projects inspired more broadly by the period. It considers Jarman's engagement with Anglo-Saxon poetry (notably The Wanderer); with works by fourteenth-century poets such as Chaucer, Dante and Langland; with saints and mystics from Joan of Arc to Julian of Norwich; and with numerous paintings, buildings and objects from this so-called middle time. Organised around several key themes - periodisation, anachronism, ruins and wandering - the book also asks what happens when (with Jarman, but also more broadly) we think the categories medieval and modern together. As such, it will be of interest to film scholars, art historians and medievalists of all stripes who wish to rattle the temporal cages of their fields. ROBERT MILS is Professor of Medieval Studies at University College London.

Because he ranged across media, Jarman can be difficult to pin down and locate in a tidy narrative of contemporary culture, and it is precisely the challenge of that untidiness that is the focus of Robert Mills's brilliant book on the artist* MEDIEVALLY SPEAKING *
Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern makes a major contribution to medieval(ist) studies and demonstrates Mills's astonishing facility with all aspects of the area, embracing history, art history, modernism, queer studies, cinema and music video, manuscript culture, and architecture. * SPECULUM *

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ISBN 13	9781843844938
ISBN 10	1843844931
Title	Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern
Author	Robert Mills
Series	Medievalism
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Year published	2018-04-20
Number of pages	286
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