Caravaggio / Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit.
| Author/creator | Bersani, Leo author. |
| Other author | Dutoit, Ulysse, 1944- author. |
| Other author | British Film Institute publisher. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication | London [England] : British Film Institute, 2021. |
| Distribution | [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | 1 online resource (96 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Supplemental Content | Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | BFI Film Classics BFI film classics. ^A303677 |
| Contents | Derek Jarman's Caravaggio -- Notes -- Credits |
| Abstract | "Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. And yet the film is a uniquely complex and lucid treatment of Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. In particular, according to Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio is unlike Jarman's other work in avoiding a sentimentalising of gay relationships and in making no neat distinction between the exercise and the suffering of violence. Film-making involves a coercive power which, for Bersani and Dutoit, Jarman may, without admitting it to himself, have found deeply seductive. But in Caravaggio this power is renounced, and the result is Jarman's most profound, unsettling and astonishing reflection on sexuality and identity."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Original 1839022566 9781839022562 |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 9781839022562 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781839022593 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1839022590 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781839022586 (PDF) |
| ISBN | 1839022582 (PDF) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (print) |
| ISBN | 9781839022579 (ePub ebook) |
| ISBN | 1839022574 |
| Standard identifier# | 10.5040/9781839022593 |
| Stock number | 9781839022579 codeMantra |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |