Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses

Eyal Peretz

Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Country
United States
Published
10 October 2007
Pages
248
ISBN
9780804756853

Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses

Eyal Peretz

How is one to think the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? How would this transform our understanding of film, on the one hand, and of philosophy and the philosophical tradition, on the other? These are the questions that guide this project on the hitherto critically neglected but seminal film director Brian De Palma. Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses is located at the intersection of philosophy and film studies, and makes each of these disciplines productive and useful for each other in a new way. It is a concrete examination of the logic governing the work of a major American artist that is, at the same time, a general philosophical examination of the logic of meaning governing all the major filmic categories and is thus a comprehensive theory of film. Becoming Visionary develops a new matrix for thinking the relations between philosophy and film and, by extension, between philosophy and the arts

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