Delphinium’s portrait of queer history: rethinking Derek Jarman’s legacy

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dc.contributor.authorStamm, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-31T12:14:00Z
dc.date.available2019-01-31T12:52:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractDelphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman (2009) portrays filmmaker Matthew Mishory’s interpretation of the childhood of Derek Jarman described in interviews and autobiographical writing such as At Your Own Risk. The portrait of Jarman honours his memory with a Super 8 inscription that repeats the queer sensibility of Jarman’s cinematic and painterly work. Mishory’s film positions Jarman as his filmmaking predecessor; even more so, it positions Jarman as a sort of queer ancestor. Delphinium’s sense of ancestry demands a reappraisal of Jarman’s work that foregrounds its creation of queer lineage. This article does just that, looking at Jarman’s Caravaggio (1986) and Edward II (1991) as both searches for queer origins and formations of queer futures. Through their explorations of queer continuity, Jarman’s films inscribe the process by which one learns to become queer and navigate a world that is so often hostile to queer existence. Their preservation of individual figures of the past provides a queer family history and a tool for education, a means for queers to understand their origins, as well as how to make sense of their own place in the worlden
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dc.identifier.citationStamm, L. (2019) ‘Delphinium’s portrait of queer history: rethinking Derek Jarman’s legacy’, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 16, pp. 38-52. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.16.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.16.03
dc.identifier.endpage52
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued16
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage38
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7396
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue16/ArticleStamm.pdf
dc.rights© 2019, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectQueer temporalityen
dc.subjectDerek Jarmanen
dc.subjectQueer cinemaen
dc.subjectMatthew Mishoryen
dc.subjectCaravaggioen
dc.subjectEdward IIen
dc.titleDelphinium’s portrait of queer history: rethinking Derek Jarman’s legacyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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