Angelic Conversations

Abstract

Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations is neither a book exclusively focused on the 1985 film The Angelic Conversation, nor a study of Derek Jarman's interviews and correspondence. Rather, Jim Ellis attempts a broad, sweeping overview and analysis of the director's feature film oeuvre. The seven chapters and coda are just as accessible to the general reader and postgraduate alike. Derek Jarman was indeed a Homo Universalis. Thus the book reflects Jarman's manifolds talents as an artist, director, political activist and landscape gardener.