At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament - Hardcover

Jarman, Derek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 009177067X ISBN 13: 9780091770679

Verlag: Hutchinson, 1992

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Signed by Derek Jarman without dedication, shelf wear to dust jacket. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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Reseña del editor

One of the most controversial filmmakers of our time (Caravaggio, The Last of England, Edward II), and outspoken crusader for gay civil rights in Britain, Derek Jarman was diagnosed HIV positive in December of 1986. At Your Own risk is Derek's distillation of his philosophy of life and an impassioned and witty guide to gay sexuality from the repressed 40s through the libidinous 60s to the Aids-chilled present. Derek confronts his death, describing the reality of being HIV positive. Of a walk home after a sexual encounter on Hampstead Heath, he writes: "Why are you doing this, Derek? You shouldn't be standing under these cold stars. You shouldn't have the stamina to do this.' The answer is that I didn't have the stamina, but throwing my arms around a stranger is an act of defiance that keeps me alive." At Your Own Risk is an act of defiance - a defiant statement against a society that vacillates between indifference and moral censure on the issue of Aids and a defiant celebration of gay sexuality. At Your Own Risk argues that if you are HIV positive you can only remain frightened for so long and that there comes a point at which fear gives way to acceptance - a point after which you have to start living again.

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This is a selection of the author's maxims on sex, love, art and film-making. Derek Jarman is the author of "Dancing Ledge", "Last of England" and "Modern Nature".

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• Verlag: Hutchinson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 009177067X
• ISBN 13: 9780091770679
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128