Soon after he started filming "The Last of England" (which had much autobiographical content) in 1986, Derek Jarman started work on this book, which contains diary entries, interviews and notes from the script. He writes of his childhood and his kleptomaniac father, the process through which he came to terms with his homosexuality, his early work as a painter and designer, and his debut as a film director. Serious themes are followed thoughout, as Jarman writes of what he regards as the corruption of the cinema industry, the moral and personal consequences of the AIDS virus, and the down side of Thatcher's Britain.
- ISBN10 1299946070
- ISBN13 9781299946071
- Publish Date 1 January 2010 (first published 16 May 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Pages 252
- Language English