{"product_id":"9781839022562","title":"Caravaggio","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBFI Film Classics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eCaravaggio\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLeo Bersani | Ulysse Dutoit\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaravaggio\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton.  It is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. And yet the film is a uniquely complex and lucid treatment of Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. In particular, according to Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, \u003ci\u003eCaravaggio\u003c\/i\u003e is unlike Jarman's other work in avoiding a  sentimentalising of gay relationships and in making no neat distinction between the exercise and the suffering of violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilm-making involves a coercive power which, for Bersani and Dutoit, Jarman may, without admitting it to himself, have found deeply seductive. But in \u003ci\u003eCaravaggio\u003c\/i\u003e this power is renounced, and the result is Jarman's most profound, unsettling and astonishing reflection on sexuality and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLeo Bersani\u003c\/b\u003e was for some years the Class of 1950 Professor of French, and \u003cb\u003eUlysse Dutoit\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Film, both at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. They are co-authors of \u003ci\u003eThe Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), \u003ci\u003eArts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais \u003c\/i\u003e(1994) and \u003ci\u003eCaravaggio's Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25 March 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBritish Film Institute\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781839022562\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e96\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5.44\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332981391500,"sku":"9781839022562","price":14.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_9bb142d2-576f-45cb-8fd4-a4cf7c31f2c9.jpg?v=1783607956","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781839022562","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}