This essay examines the role of music in the late-medieval and Renaissance response to plague. According to doctors, the mere thought of plague could bring on the disease; they therefore prescribed ...

British filmmaker Derek Jarman was a rebel with a cause: illuminating the censored gay subtext of historical figures while embracing cinema’s wide visual vocabulary. hear dean otto’s interview on the ...

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Shot entirely in sub-titled Latin, which makes it a strange precedent for Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Sebastiane is Derek Jarman’s first work as a director (though he shared the job with ...

St. Sebastian, as painted by Botticelli, Rubens, and Titian, just to name a few, is easily the most bonerific of the Christian martyrs. It is this inarguable fact that fuels Derek Jarman’s totally ...

300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Weakened by their desires, these men turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. However, ...

Comedian Andy Dick, 59, was reportedly found unconscious and unresponsive in downtown Los Angeles, according to bystanders who alerted emergency services. The 2026 Golden Globe award nominations have ...

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