Becoming Visionary Brian De Palma&146s Cinematic Education of the Senses [Hardcover]

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 Sensesis 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 Visionarydevelops a new matrix for thinking the relations between philosophy and film and, by extension, between philosophy and the arts Modestly framed as an attempt to lift Brian de Palma from the category of Hitchcock imitator and restore his unique vision, and as a rethinking of the function of the frame in film,Becoming Visionaryopens into a brilliant speculation on cinema itself, on cinema as an apparatus of sensation. A certain mirror paradoxhow can what is limited contain the reflection of what is infinitely more vast?thus defines the method and argument of this stunning, breakaway book. Philosophy and film have never seemed more suited for mutual enlightenment than in Peretz's deft analysis. Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Sensesis an 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 categoriesframe, camera movement, editing cut, close-up, and the relationslw