Intensywność peryperformansu. Anielskie rozmowy Dereka Jarmana
The Intensity of Periperformance. Derek Jarman's The Angelic Conversation

Summary/Abstract: Kwaśniewska analyses the political potential of Derek Jarman's film based on Shakespeare's Sonnets. She notices that the film, showing love between two men, is not directly or declaratively engaged in the struggle for equal rights for sexual minorities. Jarman has inscribed homosexual love into a sophisticated artistic, philosophical and existential discourse. However, Kwaśniewska claims that the film is not ideologically neutral. It is determined by the affective potential contained in it, working both within the work and in its relationship with the viewer. According to the author, a subtle, intimate, intense way of showing the relationship between the protagonists, defying conventions and stereotypes, can be much more efficient in influencing the judgments and attitudes of the viewers than an overt political declaration.

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