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At your own risk : a saint's testament

Title
At your own risk : a saint's testament / Derek Jarman ; edited by Michael Christie.
Author
Jarman, Derek, 1942-1994
Publication
Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Christie, Michael.
Description
153 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Jarman, Derek, 1942-1994
  • Jarman, Derek, 1942-1994
  • Jarman, Derek
  • Geschichte 1950-1991
  • Motion picture producers and directors > Great Britain > Biography
  • Gay men > Great Britain > Biography
  • AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Great Britain > Biography
  • AIDS (Disease) > Patients
  • Gay men
  • Motion picture producers and directors
  • Autobiografie
  • Homosexualität
  • Erlebnisbericht
  • Homosexueller
  • Aids
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
ISBN
  • 0879514736
  • 9780879514730
  • 0879515384
  • 9780879515386
LCCN
92024387
OCLC
  • ocm26218113
  • 26218113
  • SCSB-1975149
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library