Derek Jarman: Jubilee

Six Film Scripts. USA 2011, 226 pp., brochure, € 17.79
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University of Minnesota Press
From the early 1970s until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: »Akenaten«, »Jubilee«, »Bob-Up-A-Down«, »B Movie: Little England/A Time of Hope«, »Neutron«, and »Sod 'Em« - five of these films haven't made it to the screen yet. For some, Jarman was much of a Renaissance man, aggressively dragging the arts of the painter and poet into his films. These collected scripts, though, show his pure talent. He writes passionately about often bitter things, what he called the »pornographic darkness« of his work. From his features to experimental Super 8 films, Jarman's theme was them-and-us, yet behind all the layered symbolism of sexuality and repression, there is compassion and humour.

Derek Jarman: Smiling in Slow Motion

USA 2011, 392 pp., brochure, € 17.79
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University of Minnesota Press
Written between May 1991 and February 1994, and ending just two weeks before his death from an AIDS-related illness, Derek Jarman's entries in »Smiling in Slow Motion« pick up where »Modern Nature« left off. Friends and enemies are reviewed as he races through the last years painting, filmmaking, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics. Infused throughout with honesty and wry humor, these journals are a life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living life to the fullest, a document of endeavor, remembrance, and love. You will find entrances on his work as a stage designer, artist, writer, gardener, and outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist in the UK and the US.

Stuart Biegel: The Right to Be Out

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools. USA 2010, 303 pp., brochure, € 18.30
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University of Minnesota Press - GLBT Studies
Despite significant advances for gay and transgender persons in the U.S., the public school environment remains daunting, even frightening, as evidenced by numerous high-profile incidents of discrimination, bullying, violence, and suicide. Yet efforts to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and educators, or to enhance curricula to better reflect the experience of differing sexual orientations and gender identities, are bitterly opposed in the courtroom, at the ballot box, and especially in the schools. Underlying all of these issues is an implicit tension about the right to be out - a right that is seen as fundamental within LGBT communities today and, legally, draws on the right to express an identity, and on the right to be treated equally.

Derek Jarman: Kicking the Pricks

USA 2010, 251 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 16.95
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University of Minnesota Press
The provocative title of the 4th volume of Jarman's journals suggests a look back in anger and defiance of the conventional. It is, but it is also rich in wit, intellect, and a clearly articulated aesthetic. Written while editing his film »The Last of England« and originally entitled that in Britain, this 1st American edition goes by the uncompromising title the late British avant-garde filmmaker, artist, and gay activist originally chose. Part memoir, part career retrospective, the journal is a collage, incorporating dryly moving personal reminiscences from childhood through the 1980s, glimpses of his filmmaking genius at work, and penetrating critiques of his own art and those of others, as well as vivid prose and poetry miniatures.

Derek Jarman: Dancing Ledge

USA 2010, 246 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 16.95
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University of Minnesota Press
»Dancing Ledge« is Derek Jarman's stunning account of his life and art. From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the 60s and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in both his films and writing. He was not only one of England's foremost filmmakers (he directed several feature films, including »Sebastiane«, »Caravaggio«, »Edward II«, or his most radical »Blue«) - he also was a stage designer, artist, writer, gardener, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights Activist in the UK and in the U.S. Accompanied by many photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts provide intimate and vivid glimpses into this iconoclastic filmmaker's life and times.

Lisa L. Moore: Sister Arts

The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes. USA 2011, 244 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 26.30
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University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
In the great age of English garden design, 18th-century women working in the »sister arts« of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and intriguing stories, the author reveals how these women artists used flowers, gardens, and landscapes to express their love for other women. These women - such as aristocratic diarist Mary Delany, romantic poet Anna Seward, and feminist intellectual Sarah Pierce - influenced later works by Emily Dickinson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, and Tee Corinne.

Jeffrey Angles: Writing the Love of Boys

Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature. USA 2011, 303 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 33.95
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University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siècle Japanese culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. This book looks at the response to this mindset during the critical era of cultural ferment between the two world wars. The author focuses on key writers, examining how they experimented with new language, genres, and ideas to find fresh ways to represent love and desire between men. He traces the personal and literary relationships between contemporaries such as the poet Murayama Kaita, the mystery writers Eogawa Ranpo and Hamao Shiro, the anthropologist Iwata Jun'ichi, and the avant-garde innovator Inagaki Taruho, showing how these authors interjected the subject of male homoeroticism into discussions of modern art, aesthetics, and perversity.

Tony Peake: Derek Jarman

USA 2011, 615 pp. with b/w + color photographs, brochure, € 21.99
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University of Minnesota Press
In 1986, at the height of his career, Derek Jarman was rigorously denounced by right-wing censor Mary Whitehead for promoting homosexuality and violence after his earlier films, »Sebastiane« and »Jubilee«, were shown on Channel 4. The attacks were emblematic of the fire the filmmaker drew as a radical artist and sexual provocateur from the beginning of his career in the late 1960s to his death from AIDS in 1994. This intelligent, graceful critical biography traces Jarman's colorful life and art in detail. Born to middle-class parents, Jarman spent his youth abroad and in boarding schools, where he became aware, at a young age, of his gay sexuality and his artistic talents. Peake, who was Jarman's literary agent, deftly weaves together his subject's many artistic facets (Jarman was a director, designer, painter, sculptor and writer) with the intricacies of his public and private lives.