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Queer Bodies between Hopefulness and Rebirth: Rewriting and Transforming the Matter of Bodies in Isaac Julien’s True North and Derek Jarman’s Blue

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I waited a lifetime to build my garden. I built my garden with the colours of healing.1

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  1. See Derek Jarman, ‘Chroma: A Book of Colour June’93 ( London and New York: Random House, 1995 ), p. 68.

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  2. See Trond Lundemo, ‘The Colours of Haptic Space: Black, Blue, White in Moving Images’, A Dalle Vache and B. Price (eds) Color: The Film Reader (New York: Routledge, 2006).

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  3. See Marina Warner, Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), pp. xxvi.

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  6. See Derek Jarman, Smiling in Slow Motion ( Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2011 ).

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  8. See Jacques Khalip, ‘The Archaeology of Sound: Derek Jarman’s Blue and Queer Audiovisuality in the Time of AIDS’, Differences, 21 (2) (2010), pp. 73–78.

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  10. See Steven Dillon, Derek Jarman and the Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea ( Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004 ), p. 115.

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Quinlivan, D. (2015). Queer Bodies between Hopefulness and Rebirth: Rewriting and Transforming the Matter of Bodies in Isaac Julien’s True North and Derek Jarman’s Blue. In: Filming the Body in Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137361370_3

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